Stopping

remembering distracted bliss

flipping to fear as you screamed

'stop!',

drops of your sweat pooling

in omega tatoo.

freeze, shudder, lost breathing.

in brittle silence

i thought i'd hurt you inside.

and you gripped me harder,

wrapping me inside out

to lean-lick smiling relief

at the nape of my neck.

"stop, be still..."

my shoulders unknotted

in your fingers,

fertile musk rising up

between our joined bodies,

as you came.

*

remembering, stopping, to let you pass through.