i
Like a child,
I wished that each moment
With you
Would be perfection.
I imagined angels
Making love with angels,
Gods with goddesses––
Gold and diamonds
With time.
ii
I imagined you
As my perfect lover
The two of us
Dreaming a single dream.
iii
We leapt
A lover's leap
Into a pillowy sea
Of hurricane clouds.
We romped
A barefoot romp
In God's greenest pasture
And laughed
The last laugh
Because life is very funny
And we happen to be alive.
iv
Our love is
A crystal pond
Where we see ourselves
As we wish,
And each other,
As we wish–
And we drink
And disturb the pond
Becoming drunk
On pure emotions
As we worship perfections
Which fools mistake for flaws.
v
Then we kiss
And kiss again
Moving forward
And backward in time
Exploring the moon
With closed eyes
Drifting above the
Exertions of life and death
Just because
We want to.
vi
When we hug
We are the rings of Saturn
Or planets around the sun
Or galaxies swooning around
other galaxies
As we drown in passion
like narcotic stars.
vii
We love at great risk
And annihilate ourselves.
Hands touch and
lose their substance.
Bodies dissolve,
Souls vaporize into clouds.
We suspend ourselves
In secret dreams
We lose our minds.
We have no names.
viii
So it is
Each day of our lives––
We return to each other
Emptied by the hollowness
Of our labors
Relax on the couch.
Drink hot coffee.
Revive our souls.
Arise when we will,
Drape inhibition
over the bedroom door––
Turn skin to flame
And begin.