Heaven and Hell

To pull you close
Hold you and kiss you
Every time like it’s our last kiss
Passion and longing
Unspoken communication

Our breath intermingling
The taste, the smell of your lips
Ambrosia
The way you feel beneath my fingers
So soft, so warm
Summer silk
The smell of your skin
Jasmine after the rain
To touch you
Both without and within

To hold you
Make love to you
Sweat, sweet pain and longing
Striving toward a moment
Of perfect understanding

That connection so basic
So perfect, so intense
Where words drift away
Morning mist burned by the sun
Everything else pales into nothingness
Like the faintest memory of a dream

Nothing else exists
Only the ragged sound
Of our breathing
The movement of our bodies
Striving toward fulfillment
Till we taste pleasure
So sweet it feels like pain

Is this heaven? Or is this hell?
I have never felt so alive
A thousand little deaths
A thousand hells
Pave the road to Nirvana, to bliss

And the next morning
Waking up next to you
Running my fingers through your hair
Feeling you stir beneath my touch
That first kiss

And then
Heaven and hell all over again.