... (best 2021 - III of III)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIapcrtyR_Y&ab_channel=LisaMitchell-Topic

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I still have to quiet

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This joy, and disbelief - 

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Temper the sudden changes

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In temperament, with repetitious

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Mantra, recital and leitmotif.

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They call this 'the honeymoon phase' -

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Love's paired likeness and fresh onset -

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Where mornings can last forever

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And daylight's fingers represent 

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Intrusion

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Under the taffeta curls of dawn-cotton sheets,

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Past the silken curtains, and into the gilded reprieve

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Of these breakfast-in-bed-mid-morning,

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Satin-laced and silver, molten daydreams;

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II

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When I just get to watch you 

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Laying,

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As the touch of shadows pale 

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Across the curvature of your shoulders,

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The delicate shape of your stomach,

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Navel, knees, hips, ribs, 

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And the glib canvas of the bedframe;

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Where the way you look at me

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Touches briefly upon eternity - 

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Not in that it might last forever

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But will last, if only more than temporarily,

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Always, over the mantle of my memory.

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And I have to be-still my heart -

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Quiet the quick in my pumping pulse -

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For fear of disrupting the camera -

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Interrupting the union in this shared lens -

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Where we both get to capture,

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To cherish, this short chance in sweetness

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That is savoring the sensation 

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Of falling into love again.

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Reviews

[Kaylor Mason]

A priceless moment of love. Wonderful to read. I like the imagery very much.

[Ookpik]

Thank you, that's a very kind response and I appreciate your taking the time to read

-Ook

[John the Baptist]

Congratulations, Ook. You deserve it.

[Ookpik]

As tempting as it is to give thanks, my friend, it is once again only fiction

I hear they're called dramatic monologues - separating the speaker from the author - though I do, again, appreciate your care regardless

-Ook