scent of your
heart
lingers...
touches skin, mouth,
soul
and I am alive
fighting
to flow among these
feelings that
wash my
fears
in
balms of
tender-
ness
so unaccustomed
to love, lust
and life
for
m-e
me
and I wrap
the arms of your
cast-off shirt
tighter a-
round
shoulders
lest yesterday's
burdens remember
forgotten tears
anew
♦
