your eyes bore into me as I stand here

naked

my soul laid out before you

waiting

you don’t want to worry me

so you let yourself go

bare yourself entirely

and now you are waiting

we stand here together

silent

staring

waiting

and all that we are branches out from us

our hopes and dreams and memories and fears

tendrils reaching out

intertwining in the sunlight

creeping like vines under the open sky

you reach for my hand

my fingers close around yours

we are one

and the world is waiting