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Absorption

You catch me when my breath is caught

as I swallow words that you already know

and I feel the fragrance of our love that

has been absorbed deep, deep inside my soul.

In sleep, I wake restless to just tense

then ease into your arms that hold me

banishing away long hours I spent alone,

sifting through the sands of memories.

I did not love you then my love for

I had not as yet seen the colour of your soul

or heard the texture of your voice as I

hollowed into your embrace at night.

Love is cautious as it gambles, playful

to dance around my silent, still feet

that start to tap a rhythm because now

our steps are an intertwined melody.

The air around us is a magnetic field

which pulses, pulling us ever closer

I feel each nub and twist of spine

as waves shoot darts of love inside.

I am silent now in the rushing stream

so that when I call your name I know

that you are beside me pulling me

down, down to the drowning depths

I long for midnight in the noon of love.

Poetry by Elle