you bring me peace

I am grateful for the night we met
hours of conversation and
tension building
until our lips touched and I felt
your skin on mine
I felt safe with you that night
and every night with you since
nobody can hurt me
with your arms wrapped around me

I don’t want to scare you off
or move too fast
but the way my heart
mind
and body
feel
every second I’m around you
time moves too fast
every touch
every look
I just want to be your one

in my bed

i run my fingers across his chest,
we lie there nearly bare
wearing only each other and
our love

i see the way he looks at me,
i am a goddess
a princess
an enchanting mermaid in the deep-
i am what the men want,
i, am what he
wants

we flirt strategically
like this is a game we have become
professionals
at playing,
i say what i know excites him
he says what he knows will drive me

we kiss and tongue,
making love
until our steady pulsing
[pulse, pulse, pulsing]
makes the sweat
upon his brow
thicken and
he lets himself give in,
his body shuddering
and buttocks tightening,
our fingers tightly
interlocking

and sigh,

we lie there nearly bare
wearing only each other and
a smile

—Septemer 24, 2002