Wrap your teeth around the pavement

M  A   E    A I talked to God to no avail Said, "If you won't save me, please don't waste my time." Sweet bliss. A moment of perfect calm, where everything that mattered shrunk away to the simple connection of mouth on mouth, hand on skin, and a mingle of breath. Was this happiness? Was it the stillness after the storm? Well, no. It was just Sunjata. And it was everything, and it was enough. He pulled her into a deeper kiss and she melted into him, savoring every racing heartbeat until he pulled away, just enough to look at her. Search her gaze. What he found there? It looked a lot like love. "I'll trust you on that," she breathed back. Offering him again something they'd thought damaged. Broken. Perhaps beyond repair. But Maea was ever the believer in second chances. So she leaned in to kiss him again.