Kiss

WAR begins with one shot

AND LOVE by just one kiss

TWO things of beauty begin

AND ONE ruins the mist

 

FOR LOVE it breaks the fog

HIDING o’er the hills

IT TAKES away the silence

IT FREES away our chills

OH, how I long for mist again

THAT QUIET, opaque veil

IT IS there I see more clearly

THAN I can with love’s avail

 

OH LOVE, one way I will say

I HAVE known you all the years

BUT IN another way I say that you

ARE SUCH my deepest fear

 

A FEAR TO LOSE what I love most

THE SILENCE on my lips

THAT CAN ONLY be displayed

BY PEN and fingertips

Author's Note

One of my absolute favorite poems, about my first kiss.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i really like the wording in this, a very apt way to describe the first kiss...

but i would lose the upper case letters and keep it all regular font...

those words become distracting to the overall piece.

we get the effect even without the capitals..

really like the last two lines.

jacob

[Jessica Jean]

Thanks for the advice! Now that I look, it does seem a bit distracting. I guess since I've read it a zillion times I didn't notice.

[MemeQueen]

BEAUTIFUL!!!