LOVE, LONGING, LUST
The caress in a voice, the smile in a word
Sometimes
You don’t know
that there is a caress in your voice
A smile in your words
That everything you say
and
everything you do
Makes someone
break out in goosebumps
And that tingling
your very presence creates
Cannot be defined
in words or thoughts
And that the feelings
that course through you
Talk only in your blood
And your bones
And the marrow
that runs through them
And that when
your toes curl in anticipation
Of you know not what
Because what abrades
the veins on your skin
is not something
that has a name
And that little hollow emptiness
in the pit of your stomach
That becomes a giant hollow that
you can feel growing
pore by pleasantly painful pore
So much so that you have to
put both palms against it
So that that yawning gulf
doesn’t swallow you whole
But it doesn’t help
it doesn’t help
And you go tumbling
into the abyss
Love from lust, lust to love
Either?
Neither?
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And I,
who know so many words
Can’t find one,
not one
to describe this.
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