Love Poem: Passion, For the Bride
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Written by: David Smalling

Passion, For the Bride

Come night, bring the balmy winds from the 
mountain down like a curtain to the ground. 
Let every care and thred of day fall away 
from the shivering skin. On the long mound 
May the moon rise too. I my darkness in the 
light 
I want your love tonight, just where the 
grass is bright 
With the moisture of dew 
Just where we are alone, we two 
Let me feel each trembling leaf on the body 
of a black tree 
Let me taste each succulent part of the fruit 
Stung by the bee. 
Come night and lay down gently by me 
Time is a river eroding our mortality 
Love is the giver of our eternity. 
I want to smell again your body's history 
I want to know again the rapture of birth 
And the hunger of the earth.