As Long As You're Still Here

Proximity

As Long As You're Still Here

She knows what she is. He stayed when she asked.

What that opened had no framework. The self-knowledge doesn't vanish here, it becomes the condition that makes closeness possible. Moving toward him anyway, within those limits, with full awareness of them.

She finds proximity. Not love. She is too precise for that word; and too honest. Attention, presence measured in small fractions. The shoulder almost touching. The silence stretched thin between two people who have both decided, separately, not to step back.

It doesn't hold. Not a pull away. Not a jump. Just the ground going.

It isn't love / It's attention / It isn't ours / It's happening / And that's not tragedy / That's structure

She got very close. Close enough that it feels like something. Not close enough to hold.

Tracklist

  1. 01 Still Here He is still there. That's where this starts: the specific relief of someone still being present when you weren't certain they would be.
  2. 02 While You Stay The room feels different while he stays. Not larger. Easier to stand in. The difference is noticed and allowed.
  3. 03 Permission Repetition starts to feel like intention. Neither of them names it. Not naming it is its own kind of answer.
  4. 04 After Harmless Something changed and both of them know it. Not loud, not sudden. It lingered longer than it should have and that was enough.
  5. 05 Closer Than The shoulder almost touching. Neither of them shifts. The silence stretches thin and holds them both inside it.
  6. 06 Stay Neither of them moves. The heat doesn't ask permission. Not naming it is the only way to keep standing this close.
  7. 07 I Can't Stay There It held long enough to soften. That's what made it hurt when it thinned out underfoot. Not a jump. Not a pull away. Just the ground going.
  8. 08 Uninterrupted What felt like structure was continuity. What felt like permanence was just unchallenged. The difference only becomes clear once it ends.
  9. 09 Return Signal The floor is level again. Not warm, not hollow. Steady. The signal runs without leaning and that is enough.
  10. 10 As Long As You're Still Here The clearest account of what this was and what it wasn't. Not love. Attention. Not permanent. Present. Not tragedy. Structure.

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