Embraced by fire

When she climbed onto his lap sidesaddle he swallowed her whole. She liked the feeling of being absorbed into him. For a moment, she was safe. Nothing else mattered. For it was the only time in her life that she longed for a feeling of being protected. By someone else. His hands weren’t terribly large but they were the world to her. Bigger than life, there in his lap, looking into his eyes. Life seemed endless and fragile all at once. She felt him take the breath straight from her lungs, and she grew to crave it when they were apart. Their love was something like an open fire when the oxygen hit just right and it roared for just for a second. Before calming again into a blue haze that would eventually fade.