Saturday, September 17, 2005

Intimate Embrace

When I walk into an unlit room I know you're there by your perfume. It comes to greet me waft by waft Diffusing without need of draft. As though in form of tenuous ghost Intangible amorphous host Your presence fills the darkened space, Surrounding all in your embrace. So when I dive into your cloud I am within you, deep inside. Your essence spreads from wall to wall Like woven web its wisps enthrall. Your sweet seductive voice, though fair, Is simply ripples in the air, Compressions driven through the gas Without which no sound would pass. The image of your lovely form By speeding quanta it is borne. It's only what you don't absorb That reaches to my optic orb. But odours are more intimate Free molecules that emigrate. Your substance, loose, my flesh surrounds My very breath with you abounds. In public places we conjoin Each nose in touch with scented loin. No monogamous restraint For each enjoys the others taint. From the room you have departed Fragrance still has been imparted. This privy truth you must allow I still abide within you now.

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