Rootless Tree

Part 1

"Love me, as I love you." The words trembled off his lips, like a weeping song. So sad and broken its very foundation crumbled beneath his soft breath. His heart thudded against the cage that contained it, echoing within the confines of his mind, almost speaking between beats. “She's”  beat  “yours”  beat.         

Then the gentle thudding would speed up to a point that his breath seemed at times as if it fought to not be suffocated by the overwhelming feeling of want and need that coursed through his very core. Her eyes sailed away from his; tears already staining her fair complexion, flowing like a current. A long awaited confrontation she prayed would never come; a moment she hoped would never be. She had danced with his devils and now his devils demanded their dues.

The cool breeze brushed her face trying to comfort the whirlwind that was rising inside. His demons seemed to whisper amongst the wind that caressed her cheek, taunting the fears that were being born within her thoughts. The moon was busy creating its own shadows and they seemed to be playing tag with the air around her; one moment easing the tension building within her core while in the next she felt the growing uneasiness. With a deep sigh his words could barely be heard as his tone was as light as the touch of his hand on her arm. He pulled her closer to him, his breath carrying the words of his misshapen heart. "Hold me…as I hold you." He said bringing her hands to his chest; to where the drumming of his love battle cried out to her – the rhythm begging for her touch. "Look at me, as I do you Ofelia. My beautiful and most precious doll."

Under her chin his fingers trailed the outline of her jaw, following its path, bringing her face tenderly to his. His touch was as icy as his heart felt to her.  Her gaze forced further away, careful to not look into the gray stars that were his eyes as they humbled themselves before her. "My veins scream for you, bleed for you…I want you as though the world could break at any moment and we would fade together.” He desperately beckoned.

Her gaze finally moved to his for but a moment and he felt the acceleration rise within his chest once more; it echoed in his ears like a violent thunder storm. Goosebumps rose on the surface of his flesh as he got lost in how gently her eyelashes fluttered to clear the tears, like butterflies chasing drops of dew. His breath at times felt as though it stood a gasp away; as if it were his final breath to take. And as he clung to her, eagerly awaiting a response, she would suddenly pull from his embrace. Turning her back to him with no answer; there were no words she could offer that would mend the heart ache she was to suffer upon him. She knew she could never give him what he yearned for.  He was asking for more than she would ever be willing to give him.  They had had their fun…and to her that is all it had been…fun. A dance of passion and lust now run stale; a victim to her promiscuous nature. 

He seen it in her, beneath the surface; the love she would deny him. Her eyes revealed it, just beneath the thin veil that separated her from her soul ...just out of his reach. Anything and everything he could want from her. Sweet salvation at his fingertips, only to be pulled further from his reach by each second that passed. He had given all he was, all he had in this moment with her. He had exhausted every single thought and emotion he could create; and still somehow he would have given more to feel her touch restored to what it had been so many nights before in the quiet exchanges they would have. To feel her fingers trail along his collar bone, tracing his masculine features, her warm body pressing to his as their lips teased each other with sultry whispers. To experience the exhilaration of her gentle nips along his shoulder line, leading up to the nape of his neck. He ached to feel her explore his smooth skin, each time feeling like the first. Each time feeling like she found new places on him that he didn't even know existed, erogenous spots on him she unlocked so easily; as if they had been lovers for centuries and she knew all of his deepest secrets. He longed for her…as the sun longs to see the moon with every fall and rise…but never can it grasp a hold of it, regardless of how close they are...sharing the same solar system, the same realm yet never will they be able to exist with one another.