Experience and age—they learned attraction was mostly mind; power and effect of thoughts and impressions that lingered in encourage and guide of feel and emotions before, beyond and through limited moment of their live.
Experience and age—they lived the lesson of their learning.
They did not hide and, too, did not full-open show completeness of their affinities. Partial veiled, they saved and lived between a mystery that retained wonderment and awe in times and moments of their happening.
The way she touched and played with her hair when restless of a way; how eyes seemed to shadow shade on face from covered light in depth of glow; part of her mouth, faint bare of her teeth, changing of her breath: all signs of words unsaid.
He wrote her words that gifted muse and mind-playings through day and night: leadings to what he wished to come and, learning, she did too. Details of her notice that she never did until he said; blush signs of her skin, scent of her close—through coolness and in heat; dimple-raise of goosebump skin in night-cool of air through opened windows in autumns and the spring; pocket of her collar when hands held above her shoulders, finger’s settle and soft pressure into handle of their depressions as they kissed and, to gentleness, she warmed; melting and gentling in many ways.
The meet of their eyes in crowds when both wished to steal away: moment-meet of last longer than disinterest and chance, then holding more, neither wanting to look away and ending only when one broke into a smile, meek of blush or downward glance as smile moved to gentle laugh in overcoming of effect; then looking back, others’ eyes remain and match of returned smile.
Quiet nights when they read and wrote, near but in separate worlds defined by books in hand and scenes in mind and how again, as in crowd, eyes’ meet would bring them back.
Unrushing into moment, but letting mind and want of tension build in dreamings to near-future; a sensing through the room, restlessness in one becoming same in other; uplooking from their pages, more frequent and longer-keeping in the stairs; signs in eyes, signs of body expressed in degrees of their cover and free; shift of one, see of other; further signs, greater want, until unbearing of the tension.
Fast and strong, or slow and lasting—however spirits needed then—make in living moment and attraction’s full release; sweat-dew over bodies, after-cool of the air or warmth in holding close; smiles again, gentle laughs sounded as flutterings in their hearts.
Endearments, attractions, ‘building again’s in mind and signs and soft affections speaking all the words they left unsaid.
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Attraction and desire—they were mostly mind.
He desired her in evening light.
Inviting, encouraging, he gifted thought written as morning story-tell.
He left it there for her to read, to find, to feel and muse upon through all the day—to draw her smile, gift her laugh and levity of a merriment in way she could not say—all the while attraction-build and under-tension strengthening in time and mind for when in evening fall and yellow light, she in wait and wearing solely five-petaled flower’s white, day-build of the tension and attraction’s save no longer kept and—however spirit needed then—they lived desire’s whole release: sweat dewed after-bodies, warmth in close; smiles, laughs and blush-glowed being as love fluttered in their hearts.
All the day, story played, repeating in her mind.
She smiled. She mused. Laughter broke in rise and come, levitous, from seeming out of blue—merriment of way she could say—as attraction built: restless, expectant, exciting for the eve.