confuse

his voice is in a tonal range so low that you can barely register it, and he speaks quickly and you race to keep up and resort to reading his lips at times. his eyes gleam when he is excited and he carves small arcs in the air with his fingertips as he speaks, and you follow his fingers instead of his lips and lose track of his words for a moment but somehow they have lost importance because everything he wishes to say is hidden in those small movements. he speaks without speaking, even as words tumble forth, and your body responds without the consent of your brain which is still embroiled deep in the verbal and won't be catching up for some time.