A Mere Embrace

      When I consider what to say to you alone,
      No pause or reprise of rhetoric's tricks
      Helps untouched heart or utter soul exist
      Half as much as a mere embrace has done.
5     Each embrace endorses soul's serenity,
      A gush of love beyond vocal posturings,
      Past a Casanova's cribbed quotations,
      Or earnest Adamic plea of surety.
      A mere embrace alone is full of sugars,
10    Fatly replete, stuffed with life itself,
      Holding the eternal circle of ourselves
      Arm in arm beyond each pinch of harm.
      When I consider what to say, and see your face,
      I'm struck to silence...beyond a mere embrace.

 

From the collection "Supposing Roses"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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