Between Us

Steam curls like a question mark. Above your untouched espresso dark. You tilt your

head just slightly left and time forgets to breathe its next.

Your fingers tap a silent code on porcelain, a quiet road. I map the

space between your eyes where all my courage softly dies. The baseline hums

beneath the floor. A heartbeat I ignored before. Now every note begins to ache

for chances I refused to take. You were the room and I was

just the air. Present but never really there. You were the night like tailored

grace while I rehearsed the wrong embrace. Now the music fades to one