By Mirabeau
Date: 2001 Oct 17
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Remembering How To Kiss

You turned to me
and asked for a kiss
freezing me like a deer in the headlights.
I had uninvented kissing
when i noticed
that I had to ask
everytime---
something he made me do,
until i was too ashamed
to form the words
no matter how starved
these lips had gotten.
Kissing was not.
Simply not.
I would not force you
if it brought you so little pleasure.
And then---
you asked,
and I froze
fighting back the desire
to melt like a thin frost
the first time sunlight strokes it.
Hunger.
Yes.
Deep in the belly,
soul deep
a brand new shade of longing
I never knew could be.
But if I let the beast
free of it cage,
could I ever lock it away again,
the next time you decided
that my lips
were really not for kissing?