Beloved
The only thing that has ever kept me from your arms
is this lack of courage
this need in me to hold something or someone
who does not demand my immediate and total surrender
all my loving has been a stalling
or at best a demand for divine foreplay
but now I see, thank God
that you will tolerate no more dissembling
the last words from these soul lips....”finally”
Beloved
there is no mistaking that wild light in your eye
or the eternity shuddering through these twitching limbs
when we come for each other
there is no other
the ashes of the self blowing across the empty plains of longing
leaving only this radiant beauty
shining
from the fierce heart of freedom