Fay Slimm.

Once

 

 

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.