- Silk Taut, Velvet Obeys
Perfume enough to breathe.
I feel it before you move.
I stop breathing
so it can thin.
It curls around the room.
Silk no longer soft.
Silk holds
what you deny.
Light bends
to what I hold.
Light slows
until it listens.
A breath falls.
It knows
who taught silence.
I do not move.
A breath drops
too far.
I remain
because stillness keeps me.
I feel it
before you move.
You wait
as if waiting were choice.
Waiting sharpens
into permission.
The room tightens.
Velvet darkens.
Velvet obeys.
Everything stops.
Everything lingers.
I stay exactly there.
I stay.
Learning
how long you can last.
Learning
how long you let me.










