Tuesday 9 August 2022

That smile

 I see that smile in your eyes

And I know it's for me

I want to look at you

But your eyes see through to my soul

I feel so open

Full of raw emotion

Tentative and new

Yet so familiar

Your hand fits perfectly against my cheek

Your mouth  close against my own

Like our lips have returned to one another

Seeking that knowing

Forcing forward an all too remembered ache

My heart it knows you 

My skin alight at your touch 

Fiery torture invades my thoughts while I sleep

A gentle gnawing resides within me 

Which only your presence seems to quell

Hours tick by into days

And yet time has no boundaries

There's just a nothingness without your face

Your smile

Your whispered words

Come rescue this tortured soul

Glide into me

Fill me with all that you know

Hold me

Ease this want

Spare me this suffered silence

For its you I have waited for


Sally X