Previously published on the Soaring Twenties. Finally landing here on The Words Whispers.
This is a short piece. It’s a glimpse into what love looks like in the life of Isaiah and our unnamed woman.
Enjoy!
When she got back from the bathroom, I sat up and laid my back on the bed frame. She smiled at me and reached for her robe on the floor. And then she sat next to me. Her lips spoke to me again and I leaned in and brushed my lips on hers.
Her cheeks turned red with the rush of blood flow to her face..
“So then, why did you come back this time?” She asked, grabbing the blanket to cover herself up. She laid her head on the pillow and focused on me.
I laid on the bed, and reached to the right of me to shut the lights.
“You shut the light when you don’t want me to see your face.”
“What do you mean?” I sighed.
“You know what I mean Isaiah,” She turned on the lamp on her side of the bed. She wants to see more of me. She wants more from me. “You come to me, get pleasure from me, might be a couple nights in a row maybe even months and I feel like we get really close, and then you disappear.”
I focus on my breathing. She can’t read my heartbeat - she mustn't.
“So, what brought you back this time?” She grabbed my face, and pulled it close to hers,, and she continued, “I want to know this time!”
I stayed silent. I don’t want to lose her. The wrong thing and she’ll be gone from my life. I’ll be unable to come back to her. She’ll be gone forever. Or she might want me to stay with her with all doors locked.
“Why Isaiah?”
“Because I find peace and pleasure in life when I’m with you. There’s calmness within you!”
“If that’s the case, why do you always end up leaving me?And why do I keep letting you walk back into my life?” She sighs and turns away looking at the ceiling, laying silent.
“Why does she keep taking me back?” I pondered. “Does she need me just as much as I need her?
“Because I let my lust turn me away to others periodically” I reached for her and pulled her towards my chest. “I get distracted by the fair skins, the fast life, the psychos, and I lust after them. But then it leads me nowhere and I find myself yearning for you and only you. I hesitate on coming back. I hide away in darkness but end up finding my life that is you. I’m sorry.”
She chuckles, “You’re not sorry but there’s nothing I can do because I’ll keep accepting you back - but maybe this time Isaiah, maybe you'll choose to stay and create something beautiful with me instead of lusting to the fast life with those lovely eyes of yours.”
I smiled and tightend my embrace, “let’s see how long this lasts again,” I kissed her forehead, closed my eyes and fell asleep.
“I accept you back because I know you’d be destroyed without me.” I heard. “You chased me obsessively when you found me - left me when you thought you found better - this time, I’ll hold onto you so you don’t destroy us both.”
My dear reader, thank you!
Thank you for joining me here today and taking the time to read this short piece.
Till next time,
gkgaius
Deo Volente
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