I reach across the pillow bare And caress you with my thigh And upon your lips I gently bite And breathe your hungry sigh You pull me close Hip to hip My body is in song A hallucinatory return to where I still belong We are a skein of tangled feelings Traversing time and space Incantatory memories rouse us As we begin to move apace The remembering of your fingers The deftness of your hand My body still your conquest You raise your flag upon my land You say you feel my heart in yours And my blush betrays my thrill To taste again the salt and slick Of your urgent hungry will As we rise to meet the moment You place your head on mine We move together silently In defiance of our crime The treacherous dawn sun rises Your scent begins to fade I lock my eyes on yours And cling to your embrace The light leaks through the curtains And draws me from your grasp I wake in painful longing Untouched unseen I gasp I lie alone in reverie Until I hear the pad of children's feet And the fragments of our union roam Beyond my aching reach I rise and smooth the linen A requiem for the dream And I begin again the counting Of the lonely days between