I want my arm around you
Your head on my chest
I want to feel your breathing
Your hair in my face
As you're tangled up in me
But none of that exists
Right now
I want to feel the heat again
You nuzzled into me
Our hands intertwined
Your heart - beat for steady beat
Against my own
But none of this can be
Right now
Your eyes as they stare
Like the moon in the sky
Bore a hole to my inner demons
Wrestling the fight from them
To put at ease a troubled mind
Yet, none of this is happening
Right now
Your touch - a spark to set aflame
From root to withered branch
A smile's all that 'scapes the burning
For immolation never felt
Or tasted quite thi