Where Desire Learns to Listen

A third poetic collection for Bhang & Renge

I. Threshold

There is a moment
before wanting becomes intention.

It feels like standing
at a door
you are not sure
you want opened.

That moment—
that hesitation—
is where I find you most real.

II. The Shape of Waiting

Waiting is not emptiness.
It has a form.

It leans against the ribs,
paces the mind,
teaches the heart
to beat without demanding.

I wait for you
the way one waits for meaning:
open,
but not desperate.

III. Near Enough

You were close
without invading.

Your presence
respected the architecture of my silence.

Some bodies know
exactly how far to stand
to be unforgettable.

IV. Soft Gravity

Desire does not always pull downward.

Sometimes
it draws circles,
slow orbits of attention,
until two thoughts
begin to bend toward each other
without collision.

That is your gravity on me.

V. Thinking of Touch

Touch begins
long before skin.

It starts
when the mind agrees
to linger.

I touched you there—
where thought loses its edges
and becomes sensation.

VI. Night Without Urgency

The night did not rush us.

It unfolded
like a careful sentence
that knows it will be reread.

In that calm darkness,
wanting felt intelligent—
aware of itself,
unafraid of waiting.

VII. What Remains

If nothing happens,
something remains.

A clarity.
A resonance.
The quiet certainty
that desire does not always seek release—
sometimes it seeks recognition.

And in that,
I recognize you.