Love Poem: Xo - a Kiss and a Hug
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Written by: John Watt

Xo - a Kiss and a Hug

She's  fixated                                      He  is  fixated
                  upon  his  lips                                  upon  her lips       
                    wondering why                             inquiring why 
                      he has not yet                          he'd  delayed     
                        attempted the                       it for so long;
                          one act which                   what felt right    
                            in  her uneasy              long ago-what 
                              mind seems to          if the moment 
                                be  inevitable.       is here? Does 
                                  Is he leaning?   she want this? 
                                     Yes! This event they both  
                                       intensely anticipated is
                                       here! A dreamy trance!
                                      Love's magical first kiss:   
                                   hearts,  lips,     minds, souls,    
                                personalities         auras joining   
                              exploring one           together  into  
                            another, love              one,  stronger 
                          discovering a                  than the  sum,   
                        perfect match                    fear  dispensed     
                      for  whom it's                        with at long last.     
                    always ached.                            A surreal, divine,
                  Karma's  kiss.                                paradisaical kiss.   
                She loves me!                                  Yes, he loves me!
 

                                        Sometimes I make
                                    my way home after a day
                                fraught with personal conflicts,
                              job stresses and dread, all those
                           emails to read,         emails to send,
                          forty calendar             entries to make,
                        sleep deprived                 and stumbling,
                       I'm not ready                    for all of those
                      presentations,                      the pressures,
                     the challenges                       aggravated by 
                     my self-doubt,                        the deadlines,
                     the infighting,                         dull meetings
                     that don't end,                        the depletion,
                      the hardships,                       long training,
                       personal plots                     and the office
                         gossip that is                  over my head,
                          long telephone              conversations
                           that never end;         till I get in my
                              my car, slowly driving home in a
                                 rush hour crawl thinking that
                                     what I really need right
                                         now is a big HUG!

written 6 Aug 2020