A Minute Away from Eternity

A poem from the collection "Grave Dancer's Union"

 

Lying next to you, watching you sleep;

Your perfect breasts moving up and down

As you breathe softly, silently in the moonlight.

I reach out and caress your hair,

Now seemingly the color of night.

You shiver from the cold wind on your

Perfect, satin skin.

Oh, how I pray that this night never ends.

Oh, that I should keep you like this in my

Mind forever like an eternal photograph.

A photograph that will never yellow,

That will never age, that will never,

No, not in a million years, lose its luster.

I lean over and kiss your cheek;

You awaken and smile so bright it makes

The stars jealous.

“I love you,” you whisper.

If only that were true.

Come morning we will be living
Separate, normal lives.

But for night you are mine

And I am yours.

Now I know what heaven feels like:

It feels like this moment,

Right here, right now.

I wrap my body around yours to warm you

And to protect you from the storm you must

Face in the morning.

© March 22, 2008

Reviews

[Chistie]

Ohh i love it!!! So romantic!! But sad because they can't be together!! Good Job!!