OBSESSION [VIGNETTE]
        by BGM

DISCLAIMER
        STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE is a Registered Trademark ® 
        of Paramount Pictures.  
        Copyright (c) 1997 by Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved. 
        No infringement was meant.

COPYRIGHT
        1997 BGM

RATING
        PG-13

OBSESSION

I watch you when you sleep, though you do not know it.  
Oblivious, comfortable as you are curled within your world of 
slumber, I pass easily as one of the shadows that paint your 
walls at night.  

        I watch you, following the gentle rise and fall of your 
        chest, the naked bronze that gleam in the muted
        starlight so smooth and inviting.  I watch you, the 
        curve of your neck so graceful and exotic, long, 
        slender ... it yearns for the warmth of hands ... 
        wrapping around it and caressing, offering a shade 
        of pressure strong enough to make you struggle.  Ah 
        yes, the struggle you would put up would I tear 
        myself away from the shadows and rouse you from 
        your world of safe and slumber.  How I would watch 
        you, squirming and uttering those helpless cries I 
        have heard only in dreams and nightmares.  
        Pleading for mercy, begging for me, for my touch ... 

                I watch you, my groin fire, my heart ice, my 
                eyes hard ... I know you would refuse me, 
                despite my prayers, despite my physical 
                language ... you would refuse me.  Curl 
                back into your world of safe and comfort, 
                warding off the temptations of difference 
                and lust ... I watch you, my sighing breath 
                as quiet as the air filtering in your room, my 
                clenching fists abrupt movements against 
                the serene shadows against the wall.  I 
                watch you, but you do not watch me.  And 
                the night you will open your eyes and look 
                at me, that is the night I will tear away from 
                the shadows.  The night you softly utter my 
                name in the darkness, the night you tear 
                yourself away from your world of safe and 
                comfort, that is when you will be mine.  But 
                not tonight.  Tonight you live in your world, 
                while I remain outside.  

                        And until the moment your 
                        devotion turns to me, I watch you.


THE END