The first, tentative, uncertain kiss

Between me and you.

Loving the way your lips taste and feel

Against mine.

Kissing.

Again, and again,

Longer and longer, then harder,

Softer and sweeter.

Until the outside world drops away

And only you and me are left.

It is as if the concrete walls

Surrounding my heart have

Crumbled, the way earthquake

Might break down a dam.

And I feel all the love I have

Long, long  suppressed

Comes rushing out to flood my body.

I steal a glance at my hand.

Not sweating at all, though I

Had every reason to think it would.

Instead, the most beautiful gossamer white light

In the universe

Issues from my palms, like floodlights

Shooting into the black October sky.

We are literally lighting our

Lives

With the love we are making.

Now we are nude.

Now nothing can come between us.

I am swimming in your cobalt blue eyes

And losing myself in your brunet hair.

Your knowing, loving, incandescent

Smile

And the hand you place on my heart

Are a silent, sexy signal.

And so

I ease into you.

Now we are one.

One unit, one being.

One united and holy thing.

I have become the light I have beheld

For all my life.

I want this ecstasy, this satori

To last a million years,

Rather than a few minutes.

You are whispering sweet, chocolate thoughts

Into my ear

In a language only we can understand,

And in a deep, purring voice.

As if a switch goes on,

I let loose.

I scream, and so do you.

Long and loud.

We have become primal beings,

We are stronger, more impassioned, and

Wilder than the real world

Could ever let us be.

And then the screams subside.

We lie there.

Spent, sublime and sated.

The light rises again.

Only now, the sky is bluer,

The grass is greener,

And the sun does not burn,

It caresses.

Again I lose myself

In your captivating,

Magical face

And the words finally come.

“I love you.”