Once.
She had eaten
the proof of amour\'s iridescence,
taken love\'s juice
and emptied desire to its deepest dregs.
She feasted when
laden with blatant approaches
imbibed ripened
affection with late hunger\'s openness.
She sweetened by
patience the taste of raw missing
wasted no chance
of contact to shorten love\'s distance.
She had embraced
given gold of satisfied closeness,
quenched ready thirst
on nectared additions to being alone.
She once yielded
freely to romance of a lifetime
now pearls enhance
memory and adorn her warm smiles.