Will You Walk With Me

Will you walk with me

Hand in hand

Along the beaches

Through dunes and desert

Over meadowed hills

Wander the brackened forest

Across the howling moors

Up rocky frozen peaks

Negotiate barren badlands

Traverse lush valleys

Will you walk with me

Hand in hand?

Rapture

A graceful brush of your ambrosial lips

Ignite my hunger with your tantalizing proximity

Enthrall my soul

Kindle the longing

To savor the quiddity of you

Caress my cheek with the softness of your breath

Gently stoking rising desire with velvet touch

Elemental primal hunger

Coursing through my being

To devour the elixir of you

A fervent embrace of your body

Ardent hands coaxing unreserved response

Lips tactile exploration

Titillating rhythm of tongue

Tasting the exquisite rapture of you

Your Kiss

When our lips touch

There is a moment

When my thoughts cease

My speech founders

My nerve vanishes

My strength fades

Then my heart begins to race

The Precipice

Skirting the edge

Never getting close

Never committing

Never taking the plunge

No risk

No hurt

No love

Alone

Approaching the edge

The sheer gut-wrenching drop

The rocks

The beautiful surging blue-green

To risk

The hurt

For love

Intimacy

Poised on the precipice

Preparing to make the dive

Trusting to not be dashed and broken on the rocks

To splash into the inviting blue-green

To find peace

To have love

To be complete

To be with you

Trust

Something I cherish and want to have

It flew away with you and is now lost

Will I find it again somewhere else or

Has it left me forever

Will I be able to give it freely to another

Or will I never be able to give it again

Can I hold onto it knowing the pain that

Comes when it is lost

I don't know

All I know is I don't have it now