Hold Me

Hold me.

Hold me one last time
within your strong brown arms
and red-blooded heart.

Hold me to your chest
so fierce with lovely loyalty,
warm inclusion
not yet chilled by my exclusion.

Hold me this one last time
remembering all our years 
and glad times before

Shading from memory
aching days and nights alone
without passion's touch
on skin
in heart 
beneath belonging mind
longing to live more fully in this body
worthy of graced embrace.

Wrap your arms 
and legs around me,
your breath
and sweat secure me.

Hold me one last time
before I go
where we cannot again
feel ourselves together
warm skin to warm 
too thin.

Hold me for our love
and not our loss.

Hold me this one last time
forever.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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