Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Filling me up like a balloon April 18, 2012

 

She says she needs to fix her face,

returning in a whole new, revived mood,

exuberant, returning to the tales she told,

 rattling them off like a gatling gun.

 I can hardly keep track.

 Where she goes nobody knows.

 Telling me she needs another smoke

 and goes back out to the street

to where her hair looks even redder

 under the red light above the door,

and her eyes, so much darker,

I dare not look took deeply into them,

still I do, drawn finally

to her shimmering lips

which I cannot resist,

breaking into her diatribe long enough f

or a kiss, a deep one,

this thing not like the peck I gave her

after that Sunday at the diner,

deeper than any kiss I've had

 with anyone in years, a kiss

I get lost in,

 as if I believe I will never

get another chance like this,

 her breath filling me up

as if I am a balloon,

 ever lasting as Springsteen said.


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