Stay

Stay here
Closer than you meant to
Closer than we agreed
The air changed
When you didn’t leave
And I didn’t ask you to

We both felt it shift
From harmless
To something with weight
We could still step back
Call it nothing
And walk away clean
But neither of us moves

This is scandal if we name it
So we don’t
Don’t step back

There’s a heat here
That doesn’t ask permission
And we lean into it
And we lean into it

Your silence says enough
Your staying says the rest
No polite distance left to hold

Every second gets heavier
Like it wants a body
To land in
I feel the line under us
And I don’t step away

We both know
What this becomes

This is scandal if we name it
So we don’t
Don’t step back
It’s louder than rules
Louder than sense
No one is stopping it
No one is stopping it

Say nothing
Just stay
That’s answer enough

We both know
What this becomes

No one is stopping it
No one is stopping
Not you
Not me
Not now

Please—
Pl—
I cannot continue like this—
(Continious)