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Friday 3 May 2024

Another sort of touching

I was trying to remember

What it was like to fall in love

I was lying here looking

Ogling at that turquoise top

Staring at that flash of flesh, Gilgamesh

Was I confusing

Was I abusing

Abusing lust, lust with love


And then I remembered

Remembered that Sunday morning 

Flight lands and arrives, landing with nowhere to go

I was just in place, some place, anyplace

Wandering, in love, in love with a big grin


OK so we’d made love some time earlier

And that was some, that was some intoxication


Still, even with intoxication

This was some other sort of touching

Another sort of touching

Touching that caught

Caught, captured in rapture

On a rapturous Sunday morning


The purple haze had descended

My mended mind remembered

Every touch, every stroke

Every word we spoke

Spoke throughout the night

Spoke way on into the morning

Way on into the morning

And when we rose for the sunrise

To skip along the sands

In nothing more than our bare feet

Nothing more than our love

Our kissing

Kissing, kissing, sweet kissing sunrise


Sunrise that burnt off the hazy night descended

My mended mind remembered

Sitting by the ebb tide

Feeling for toes, toes toasting in the sunlight

Feeling another sort of touching

Another sort of touching


Was I touching

Was I touching love


Or is my memory fed

Bled 

Bled dry

Dry with lust

Not Love