5. The Body

 

Sex was not an act.
It was a meeting.

 

When they touched,

her body understood before her mind did.

 

She felt the tension he carried,
the careful distance,
the grief folded into silence.

 

When he entered
she felt whole
not through possession,
but through recognition.

 

For a moment,

his sorrow had a place to rest.

 

Some bodies speak the same emotional dialect
long before thoughts arrive.