Once I Touched You

Once I touched you

On a cold tonight

Just like so many so long ago

And you and I were one

Completely uncovered

Yet beneath blankets

Under so many stars

Oh, how you held me

Close as if I were

Your every breath

In a universe where

Every dream comes true.

I felt your smoothness

Skin so luminous

Lips so warm

Tender and delicious

Like your breasts

And pink pert nipples

Eagerly standing stiff

As butterflies

Fluttered inside your navel

Quivering

In my mouth

And we had no care

None beyond our bed.

We made magic

Turn into a warm oasis

Sweat from lustrous bodies

Glistening us

I felt your hair

Beneath mine

Your legs open as wings

Giving me all of you

The feelings

You kept only for me

This personal secret

This wonder

Only I know so well.

Our lust made us one

And love shaped

A sensuous twosome

The definition of

Pure pleasure

This night that seemed

To play Chopin

As if for the first time

Over and over

As you moved with me

Undulating melody

Imitating the nocturne

Filling our ears

Between moans

In the night.

I tasted you

You devoured me

And I moved in you

So slow and deep

As only a river could

Under the ice

We came furiously

And again and

Oh so again as we cried

Our tears of ecstasy

Writing poetry

And carnal verses

All through the night.

Our afterglow

Illuminating quietly

Gave us a gift

Wonder blossomed

Lotus-like in a way

Reminiscent of

Effervescent champagne

Bubbles lifting gently

We were so naked

Souls so nude

Sex was too inadequate

To describe what we shared.

We were innocent

And the angels

Called us love.

Copyright © 2021 Charles Edward York

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