Your skin so near
I could touch it
The air so full of energy
I could taste it
I wanted to reach out
Take your hand in mine
Like a live wire cut loose
Seeking to be reconnected
But something held me back
Fear of being misunderstood
Or rejected
So I sat and listened instead
And touched you only
With famished eyes.
new connections
poem: a moment frozen
A moment frozen in time
It’s the right one and we know it
The lips that a moment ago spoke shy
Now capture each other with yearning
A connection – you feel it
I feel it too, and surrender
To the torrent that rises up
Within me like a hurricane
Breathlessly your hands trace my form
Touching me like stolen treasure
My body yields its secrets like a
Rosebud opening its petals to the rain.