Your Whispered Words

Like your whispered words,
I fall away and smile
Under a veil of blueish haze,
Wrapping me in layers of desire and wonder.

Gasping for air,
Your air-
My air-
Our air.
Holding out this hand and
Breaking through to the world beyond my mind,
Where you wait with callused fingers and fine bruising around your heart.

I paint your face with words,
Trust, love, beauty, emotion, pain.
Line your lips with my own and breathe into you what is left of me.
To the edge of my being and back,
I see with a weightless soul.

Like your whispered words I say:

“I won’t be like the others,
The one’s who let you fall.
I won’t be like the liars,
I’ll save you from them all.”