Some Heartfelt Thoughts.

Some heartfelt thoughts

Would that you 

and I were not 
 

as fate decreed 

just two lost souls 

life left to wander 

all these many years 

without the joys of 

our fingers intwined 

our lips shared 

as one 

in liquid blends 

of taste, touch 

and whispered words 

bringing 

heartfelt thoughts 

with nothing 

-between- 

us both 

but patterned cloth 

and pockets of air.

Would that

we had known 

each others selves 

as well as we 

have memorized 

the lines of 

our  own faces 

as well as we know 

the maps of 

our own  flesh 

navigating all the

most tantalizing places 

together.

instead of those 

paths of pain 

on which we 

have both embarked 

over the years 

even without regrets.

Would that you 

could hold me 

curled in your fingers 

and squeeze me 

like a handshake 

between closest friends 

familiar and warm,

as you watched 

the flames of passion 

blazing brightly 

under the lids of my 

half-closed eyes, 

as you felt the stirring 

of the flesh 

that hardens 

during one of 

life's most 

tender of moments.

Would that

I could 

wet your lips 

in stereo places 

and make your breath 

catch 

like the 

gasp of a newborn 

as it's 

realizing life 

with all it's potential 

smiling as you cry out

 in soprano sighs 

with joy at 

our joint discovery 
. 
It's thoughts like these 

that keep the embers 

glowing in the 

caverns of my heart 

and it's knowing 

that we could together 

and share a match 

that makes the spark 

to feed the flames 

and quench the cold 

that grips our lifes 

without what would 

what could have been 

if we had not 

as fate decreed 

been two lost souls 
 

left apart.