For L.P.

What attraction you say

Lover’s gravity I reply.

You’re my moon

My light

You guide my way at night.

But you’re miles away

You say.

Not true my riposte;

Listen to our hearts,

The cadence is one.

Two distant earthly bodies

You reply

Ever confused.

Two bodies

One soul, I intone.

But I’m taken

You protest

Our staccato pasts intruding.

Our eyes search the other,

Is it an eternal flame?

I wait……

It’s your heart that pauses,

Not your voice.

I knew.

My delicious torment

Listen to your heart.

It’s not tangible

That is true.

Do not fear the ethereal.

Then suddenly

Our cacöethes consumes us

And your strawberry kiss--

Electric for me--

Stops

Those unnecessary words.

Our bodies

Formerly solitary,

Isolated

Bind together

In the heat of new love.

In our lust, our ardor,

Our delight

We become singular

We become infinite.