Every gesture
Ripples with chaos
Like the crapshoot
Of honest emotion
Gambling its truth
With intention
Expressed through words
Never said

Where hands untouched
Nearly tremble
At appropriate lengths
Growing shorter
Between two souls
Sharing nonsense
Before what’s real
Soon explodes

As feelings held
Often burst
When chemistry breaks
Every method
Of obscuring lines
Getting messy
If their seething needs
Should erupt

Into candid flames
Best conveyed
By actions bold
Breaking silence
Seeing strangers dance
Around meaning
Rather than face
Burning hints

That speak how eyes
Gander back
While defying rules
Barely questioned
Until one heart’s
Skipping rhythm
Allows all hell
Breaking loose

But free from stress
Unrestrained
Though always wrong
Since admitting
Raw connections
Compromise safety
Yet welcome bliss
Here and now.

• J. Pigno