Performed by Emily Stellar with Christopher Sopher
℗ CosmicCrusaderMusic.com (BMI/ASCAP)
©Written, Produced, and Published by:
Christopher Sopher Media, LLC, Phoenix, AZ
And still
She waits
Not tense
Not asking
Just open in the way sleep opens doors
The waking mind guards
The dream deepens
The air grows heavy
Charged
As if the night itself is holding its breath
Something gives
She speaks in breath
Hot then cool
Like a storm rolling in
Before the air knows what to do with itself
I crash
Thunder breaking me open from within
Lightning strikes at the peak
Of my secret garden
It storms
Rain pours
Hot then cool
Yielding
To a flood
What can no longer be held back
Not suddenly
Not violently
But the way a storm finally remembers
What it came to do
The tide turns inward
Waves no longer retreat
They spill
They cross the line they had been respecting
Her body answers before thought returns
A quiet breaking
A soft undoing
Heat blooms
Then spreads
Then takes over the landscape entirely
She arches into nothing
Into no one
Into the woman made of touch and knowing
Who exists only because she allowed her to
The beach disappears
The map dissolves
There is only water now
Warm and uncontained
Moving freely where it was once held back
She exhales a sound she doesn't hear
Her body loosens its grip on itself
The dream pours through her
Like rain through open ground
And somewhere between sleep and waking
She smiles
Because even in rest
Even alone
Her body remembered how to arrive
Content I lay
I let out one final sigh
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