From Today Until Forever

As soon as my eyes opened I saw you were beside me: with your laughing gaze on my sleepy face, with the murmur of your fingers in my tousled hair, with your gliding lips from my cheek to the cold lobe of my ear to my silent lips: — a long, sweet message that has at last arrived from far away. — True words! Tender tongues! — clear, eloquent, more than any other tongue — in mouths open with longing rolling over each other, dancing together, mingling together... I swallow with all my mouth — hungry — the kisses of your sweet mouth. The papillae of my tongue swallow, all of them, papilla by papilla, the delightful taste of your palate. My crop, empty, swallows from between your lips the seeds and the food you bring as gifts: Love! Love! You are beside me, moment by moment closer to my naked body. Through imprisoned streets, through war I pass, in the shelter of your fortress: you who leapt out with your truths from the heart of my every night’s dream...