You kiss me
Each time like
It’s the last
Yet like summer
Follows spring tenderness
Turns to heat
Like a warm
Towel after cool
Baths and like
Butter melting on
Warm bread your
Kisses come surprisingly
Like rain showers
In Honolulu sunshine
Bathed yet cooling
Tender and sweet
Like buttery croissants
And sometimes in
Life you are
Lucky enough to
Meet someone so
Fresh and new
That they tickle
You like a
Fresh overnight snowfall
That you awaken
To on crisp
Chilly early morns
Glistening in sunlight
Sparkling like a
Sea of white
Diamonds and perhaps
A few light
Paw prints reminding
You that indeed
While newly fallen
They still remain
New to you
I don’t love
In order to
Be loved I
Love to love
And once even
If we stop
Loving I will
Always love simply
Because you are
Now in my
Heart and it’s
There that you
Shall forever stay
Love tends to
Show up around
A blind corner
A dish that
You weren’t craving
Until you tasted
It’s like a
Season out of
Sequence spring following
Autumn a surprise
Party for no
Reason a smile
You’ve seen hundreds
Of times before
But this one
Twinkled like a
Far off star
When I look
Into your dark
Deeply dark brown
Eyes I see
Calm pools on
Moonless nights and
Hear the chirping
Of marsh toads
And feel the
Steam rising like
A million separate
Sighs your eyes
Beckon me to
Slip in slowly
To your dreams
Dipping toes timidly
Then diving beneath
And swallowed completely
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 