KEEP IT LOW

M-Z...

keep it between us.

Keep your voice low

The walls been listening longer than us

Your perfume lives in the pillow

My chain leaves winter on your touch You say,

“Tell me something honest”

Like honesty don't change with the hour

I say your name a little softer

When I know I'm losing power

Your glass got lipstick fading My story doing something similar We both

look better in low light Truth usually does in miniature

You know I'm lying when I'm fluent I pause when something's real

That's why every unfinished sentence Says more than I meant to reveal

Don't turn the lamp on yet

Let the shadows keep their version

Put your hand back on my chest

Before the questions find their wording

You want tomorrow in an answer I only know what tonight proves

I'm close enough to call this love Too scared to call it

something I could lose

Keep it

low Don't wake the morning Say my name Like you're still deciding

Pull me close

Like leaving ain't forming

Underneath every word We're hiding Keep it low

Your lips by my ear

Tell me what you want Not what sounds sincere We get honest

When the room goes dim You know I shouldn't stay

Still make space for me again

Your side of the bed got warmer Mine keeps drifting toward the

edge

You trace circles on my shoulder

Like you're drafting what I won't confess We use touch as punctuation

Every time the sentence turns Your phone face-down beside mine Two screens

pretending not to learn You ask,

“Do you really miss me Or the way I make you feel?”

I almost hand you something honest Then your mouth renegotiates the deal

Knowing every inch of somebody Ain't the same as knowing how to

stay I make temporary feel expensive Then invoice morning for the blame

Maybe that's why we whisper

Truth gets heavier with volume Maybe passion loves the dark With daylight

giving it consequences You said,

"Stay until I sleep" Like that was smaller than forever

I've heard promises with more words None of them landed any better

Keep it

low Don't wake the morning Say my name Like you're done deciding

Pull me close

Goodbye is forming That don't make tonight a lie

Keep it low

Your lips by my ear

Tell me what you know Not what keeps me here We got

honest When the room went dim I know I shouldn't stay That's

why I'm still here again

Don't turn the light on...

Not yet. keep it

between us.