Chest to chest

Your heartbeat

Close to mine

Heats my morning dew to steam

And reflects on my face a most subtle shine

As close as grass and budding leaves

As near as tomorrow has ever seemed

With breath like breeze and feelings tall

As tsuga mertensiana hemlock trees

With heat my hands

Press shapes on your back

And my mind is otherwise

And most happily inclined

To think of you

And how your love does last

And how your heartbeat closes in

On my own ever beating fast

You are at last, mine

Saria