It was sixty-nine hours of pretending

there were sixty-nine minutes posing as truth

allowing sixty-nine moments of us

leaving sixty-nine times we said and unsaid everything and nothing

……….. a clandestine pair checking only one luggage

understanding the full meaning of terminal

carefully upholding our guises and half truths

not standing toooo close

aware of the length of each gaze

keeping the conversation hushed

but not toooo hushed

then

thrown off guard by your quick thrust on my lips

only fully realizing its passionate impact many moments later

then

off in the sky lifted the very beat of my heart

and then I was left standing.