Mental Foreplay
Sometimes when I close my eyes
I see us
Engaged in mental foreplay
Both too shy to
Move first
So we just gravitate
Toward each other
Like penguins in a snowstorm
She brushes his chest
In a playful gesture
They lock eyes
The room grows quiet
Despite the musical backdrop
She can feel his heart beating staccato
Through the comfortable skin of his sweatshirt
He searches the depths of her eyes
For some flaw
To make the moment more real
She bites her lip
And looks down
He lifts her chin
With his index finger
And brings his face
To hers
They rub noses lightly
In an Eskimo kiss
Before he gently brushes her lips
With his
She nibbles his bottom lip playfully
And they become lost
In the language of kissing for
What seams like generations
As he explores the curves of her body
And she examines the angles of his face
He carries her to the bed
And she catches glances of him
Between kisses
He lays her down so gently
She feels weightless
And to him
She is
Like an earthly angel
Looking at him with
The graceful eyes of a fawn
On a bed of grass
Spring envelops them
Like blankets and pillows
As they roll naked
Through the wildflowers
He suckles her as though
She has just given birth to him
She runs her fingers
Through the turbulent waves
Of his hair as he
Leaves a trail of kisses in the
Direction of her navel
He savors the line of her hip
And she whispers
Almost inaudibly
Take your time baby
We’ve got all night
He smiles devilishly and
Touches the spots that
Make her gasp and squirm
Until the night air is
Filled with a symphony of rapture
With his bass and her soprano
Mingled with the drums of penetration
And when I open my eyes again
It really has been all night
And the sun peeks at me
Over the window ledge
As though I’d been naughty
And he wants to expose me
To the world
As the dirty demoiselle
I’ve become
I wish you good morning
With a fiendish smirk
Knowing that you’ve just gotten
Chills down the length of your back
As my face
Flashed in your mind’s eye
Good morning indeed
My love
Until we meet again
by Empress Nzingha
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