From The Outside

This is a very old piece, 08/2004, to be exact. I found it very fitting for today's prompt though.

Verse First ~ Body

 

for Poets United

 

 

 

 

She lies innocently beside me as the shining rays of the sun

cover her body in a golden brown glow.

Thoughts and words are moving between us,

connecting us at the soul yet I can’t help but be distracted…

The soft lines and gentle feminine curves of her naked skin

are demanding the attention of my eyes.

I am tracing the patterns of her body in my mind

and my thoughts are wandering to places

that the mind of a friend should not go.

I seek a subtle distraction, as the heat intensifies this feeling,

and I sit on the edge of the pool and dip my feet in the cool clear blue.

For a single moment the shocking chill of the water

takes my mind away from the gorgeous creature at my side.

I run my hands through the water and watch as the calm surface

becomes unsettled with the rippling waves and I can feel the parallel

of the way I have become unsettled as well.

I listen intently to every word as it falls from her lips

but I am painfully conscious of the fact that I have to concentrate

on where my eyes have fallen.

My soul is so obviously on fire when I am in her presence

and I fear she can see right through me.

With the sweet innocence of an angel,

she says it is simply because I know her from the inside,

that I love her like this.

And while there is truth in these words,

what I see on the outside leaves me shaken and breathless.

The body of a beautiful woman, curving, tender, and soft

is the ultimate adventure of the senses.

A place to lose yourself endlessly, wandering inch by inch

discovering the essence and the texture of the gift at hand.

I could lose myself in you forever as you are indescribable

outside, as well, as in.