I am in love with this moment, and my head turns in the
widest angle possible to absorb the beauty surrounding me in this small white
room. The plastic ceiling and half-open blinds reflect love in blinding
fashion; there is a muted-grey sun crawling toward our feet as you place your
head on my chest and exhale. My head oscillates left and right, charting the
front door’s poorly polished golden handle and following a line to the lamp
standing at attention, the empty wine glasses next to the chair you claimed
when we ate breakfast on that first morning, the lonely clock muttering the
ticks of time to itself as it hangs above the limp sleeves of an empty jacket
clinging to its resting place. My head turns and takes in the speaker
humming under strings of year-round Christmas lights that outline the calm chaos
above our bodies, huddled together in warmth on the couch. My eyes reach the edge of the room as the other side of that same muted sun strains to touch the mementos
lined up on the side of the couch, a holy trinity of items at equal distance from
each other, sacred symbols of the space between our bodies. I realize you are watching me from the chest you claimed, and your
mouth remains pressed to my shirt while your eyes twist upward in loving
silence until a smile lifts you to my lips. I am in love with this moment, as
you place your head on my chest, and I inhale.
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