Between Us

Pausing in the moment between breaths

I look up to see you looking at me

And it is like light, shimmering between us

It is like liquid sameness, you and I

And we know that we are one.

And I breathe in  and I see your ideas and beliefs

Rise to the mind like a defence,

And you see that I have breasts, and curves

And you see that I am not your colour

And you know that I am different.

And then I pause, between breaths,

And I feel the light moving between us

And I know, the fullness of expression

Through the love of the moment

The dancing light underneath form.

And I breathe out and you smile

And I avert my eyes, for fear

That your idea of me will creep in

Between us. 

Photo: Tiffany Jones