~don't you know forgiveness begins with you~

Your touch burns my skin
Engulfing it in a flaming passion
Without you even knowing it.

You lie sleeping, next to me
The sheets between us rising and falling
like waves of the endless sea.

I come closer.
You murmur my name,
And pull my hand towards you,
Across the bed.

I indulge in the moment.
Letting my hand linger in yours
Before panicking.

He will know.

Instinctively, I pull my hand away
Quickly.

He must not know.

He delights in this masquerade
And I join in his mirth,
Laughing.

Laughing till tears run from my eyes.