Sitting in silence

Stay! he said, for the thousand two hundred days and for a million other moments
She watched with hollow eyes
Stay! because the familiar city blocks are dull and makes me wry
She wondered if she could stay and lie
Stay! those smiles won't fade and the doleful days be undone
She smiled away those appeals and stood brazen
Stay! how far will you run, how hard will you push and tug at the seams
All the strength to break these shackles to run as free as my feet can be
Stay! for I've taken you in your nakedness like I swore
Naked soul escaped you and will escape many more
Stay! he pleaded taking her palms into his own
eyes met and skins pertain but her soul was away on a mad quest unknown