42footprints: Line Dancing (Jack/9) [PG]

[neon-footprint.livejournal.com]

Author: 42footprints
Title: Line Dancing
Challenge: Amnesty, for September 07's Crossing the Lines.
Pairing: Jack/9
Spoliers and Warnings: None
Summary: Jack's musings on relationships, boundaries and relativity.

 

Line Dancing

 

Draw me a line, I’ll dance along it,

feet that flicker like flames will sear it

in flesh or stone. There’s a web of such lines,

glittering like a constellation,

mapping my life by boundaries crossed.

 

When you’re running alone, relativity

moves the lines so that they cross you.

Your passing gravity knocked me from orbit,

love created a place to stand

outside of myself. The lines stood still.

 

There wasn’t one that I wouldn’t have crossed

when nobody cared; I was passing through.

Slightly less selfish, a lot more afraid,

I’m learning which lines to dance within,

and which to cross, running hand in hand.

Comments

[trobadora]

This is really lovely!

Btw, would you please edit your subject line according to the comm rules? The format should be username: Title (Pairing) [Rating]. Thanks!

[neon-footprint.livejournal.com]

Oh bother, I normally do it right, sorry.

[trobadora]

No worries! I swear I have to look these things up every time I post something to another comm. *g*