TWO COLD SOULS

BY: AVA LOWE

Your bare skin is touching mine, we are as close as can be. But our minds couldn't be farther apart My head is resting on your chest, I close my eyes and all I can see is him. I know it's all wrong. I am here with you. I am supposed to love you and I want to but am I ready? His hands are wrapped around my waist but as his eyes look past me into the vast nothingness. I know I am not alone with my wandering thoughts I know I am not the girl he wants, the girl he desires, the girl he might even love. We share a commonality, We want to be loved. More than that we want to close a gap, we want to fill a void We are merely ghosts of our pasts to each other.Just two warm bodies wishing for two cold souls.