Naturally

I am pouring myself onto you
Like fragrant rain on a scorching day
And just like nature
We are steam on contact.
I am trying to inhale you,
Absorb you,
Tattoo you with this moment so that you cannot forget me when I'm gone.
I'm peeling back your layers
And you have me in your grips
And if the world
Were to collapse
Right now
I would merely sigh against you and savor the seconds we have left.
And even if we were showered with fire
While the sky fell and the earth dissolved
I would still
Lick the sweat
From your chest
And relish the feeling
Of you inside me
And my soul in my throat.

(Summer '05)