Lasting Evidence

I lost all feeling last night;
believe it or not,
while our bodies lay skin to skin.

We lay flat against each other
bodies pulsing, but numb,
as our emotions erased the solidness of each other.

I felt only the essence of you,
not the presence of your body over mine.

I felt the subjective body changes
that this type of emotion creates and
the affect of who you need to be,
and who I wish I could be,
with you.

This feeling;

this feeling of realness;
it filled every empty space that
all the days of my past had produced
and I was no longer alone in my antiquity.

If you forgot we were skin to skin,
even for a moment,

and only saw the map my eyes had drawn;

then the feelings that were lost, were found,
as we broke our trance
and drifted back into the physical world

where our bodies touched
and we felt nothing,

but skin
on skin.