want

29 Jun 98

want, i hear your want
whispered in ragged breaths
smoke wafting off your body
as the heat evaporates your sweat
tongue aching touches
that we withhold
tremble of yearning


yet
and yet
it is more than either can reach
too far distant this truth
and i, forlorn
another missed hope
another broken chance for maybe
as i might have reached
finding one not remotely tied to the screen


but smokey in jars of amber
i watch from afar
dreaming kisses and dances undreamt
and now forgotten perchance
in the ashes of responsibility


i weep
missed hopes and broken maybes