i've seen her get embarrassed, felt almost as intimate as when we kissed. she asked to kiss me and i said no, then did it scared. to her i read like a well-written instruction manual. as if im a scale and she has developed muscle memory. terrifying. what's left for her to get intrigued? it feels like im competing with the entire world. skill-based matchmaking failed me this time... or it's time i get outside my comfort difficulty. time i risk being left instead of leaving. still i've strummed a resonant frequency and it sounds so beautiful it shuts my other senses down. time loses its abstraction when i'm waiting for her.
















