Sleep with him

Please
stay with me tonight

Think not on the morrow
when they will find us together
and accuse us
for wanting to be side by side
and not spend another night
alone.

Think only on tonight
with your warmth
and mine;
breathing together
the hot air beneath this sheet.

In the dark we are hidden;
in the dark they cannot judge us.

In the dark I had found sanctuary;
with you, I don't need it.