Fade

Some kind of light into your darkness 
Colors your eyes with what's not there 

Fade into you 
Strange, you never knew
                                             -------- From "Fade into you" by Mazzy Star

Give me a reason... give me a reason to not dream of you.

I stop, standing still just inside the glass revolving-door hotel entrance, to watch you as you sit on the deeply-cushioned white-leather couch flipping the pages of some glossy magazine. I can see you half-glance at the pictures on the pages as you keep an eye on the dark wooden check-in counter. It isn't quite 3 pm yet. You are early, as I expected you would be. I cannot help but smile as I see you reach for the glass of white wine from the table by your side. Your familiar raven hair cascades in small waves down to your shoulders from under the wide-brimmed straw hat you are wearing. You are wearing a dress, a bright floral one. I know you wore it to please me, and that makes me happy. I follow the muscles of your lower left leg with my eyes as you swing it in time to the music in the hotel lobby, on to your bare arms from your hands up to your shoulders and pause at the movement in your neck as you drink your wine. Your neck is my fetish.

I cannot wait any longer and stride over to the check-in clerk. My back to you, I speak louder than usual knowing that my voice will catch your mind.

I wait until no one is in front of the elevator before getting into one.

"My god, Michael," you say as you glide into the elevator as I hold the door open for you, "I have waited for this day for so long".

I pull you into my arms as the elevator door closes.