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I could not tell you well enough with these
feeble words the way you moved my heart,
so I parted time and reached across the spaces
to trace my icon on your gentle heart and kiss
a brand within your soul. I gave control to hope
and dreams and prayers unleashed when we first
reached across the room and buried kisses deep
within hungry beings. Tearing away the pain
of lives wasted on crusts tasted in desperation.
And we took well our mourishment, as fabrics fell
and warmth engulfed our forms...
hypergolic instants made infernos as we rose
to the eloquence of our unfettered thirsts and
hungers taking pleasure in the sharing and
the caring and the daring to be one and one
made one by our surrender to a larger reality
expressed in the tears you wept and the words
I sighed as we melted into the embers of the night
and bit back our last fears as your legs entwined
with mine and the warm wine spilled within you
as a christening of a new tomorrow.


copyright William F. DeVault (wfdv). for Karla.