air weighs heavy with apologies

4 am permeates
through cracked window
and saturates
the stark room
I swim soaked
you're drained
I'm dripping

You finally dream
roll over
sand in your eyes
stars in mine
paint my skin
with the night sky
and leave...
careful to kiss

I wipe the stars
from my eyes
but my body stills
the memory
of you

your fingerprints
still cover
what the night sky
couldn't paint over