time is elastic when we are adjoined at the waist
when our hearts beat together in the forever rhythm
when sweat suddenly shows on your arms and on your forehead
and i cannot see and i forget where i am

and our skin moves in improvised patterns across the room
and the sounds are the same, and i can't escape
when your blackening lungs cry no more no more
these last twenty minutes are what i live for.

when you ask the same question over and over
when i can't remember who is coming home or when
and that night my dreams will last hours and hours
you take me there, with no crumbs to find my way back