By sweetness
Date: 2001 Dec 22
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He is

He is that one thought
that never completely leaves my mind.
He's a connection still tenusously shared
even after I think I have severed it.
He is a hundred different moods and shades
of light cast over my life
He is wanted, but not needed.  
He is missed, but not mourned.
When he is gone there is an easy ache
in my soul, an empty space that tells me
there is a lack, a buoyance that says
it doesn't need to be filled.
He is strong hands bracing my waist,
a hard kiss against my suddenly fragile breastbone.
He is the scent of sun and man, cotton and sweat,
miraculously woven into a sweetness all his own.
He is sunlight and shadow, he is passion and mystery,
he is ice and heat and fire and rain,
he is distant and absent, he is longed for and he is loved.