Spread On Silk

The warmth of your skin
melts your cold eyes
into pools 
of jewels
to be devoured
I have walked
your
pearly-towers
embraced you among
the freshly cut flowers
Bathed in fragrance
and spread on silk
I have fallen
beneath your guilt
into worlds so fragile
I nearly broke-
where fertile 
fields
of desire evoke
this fleeting
embrace
sweet-kiss
of eternal hope
Copyright © | Year Posted 2005

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Michelle Avatar
May 21, 2012 at 5:14 PM
Amazing talents you have, Paul, writing among them, putting images to words another. Thanks so much for sharing, I hope to read more of yours :) empathy is strong in my reading today =Juli-Michelle=
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