TOUCH HAS A MEMORY"
~ JOHN KEATS ~
THE PILLOWS ARE ON THE FLOOR.....THE SHEETS ARE ALL CRUMPLED.... AND.... AS YOU LIE THERE.... ENTWINED....SATIED.... SKIN DAMP....YOUR BREATHING HEAVY..... PARTS OF YOU......ARE ACHING AND SORE FROM HARD ACTIVITY...
AND THEN YOU FEEL TIREDNESS COMING TO CLAIM YOU....BUT ...YOU DONT WANT TO SLEEP......YOU WANT TO JUST LIE THERE.... TO FEEL THAT SORENESS STILL, AND RELAX INTO THOSE FEELINGS LEFT BEHIND......AND AS YOU THINK THAT...... SLEEP DOES CLAIM YOU FOR ITS OWN....
IN RIVERS THE WATER THAT YOU TOUCH,
IS THE LAST OF WHAT HAS PASSED,
AND THE FIRST OF THAT WHICH COMES,
SO WITH PRESENT TIME
~ LEONARDO DA VINCI ~
YOU OFTEN WAKE THE NEXT MORNING...AND THE DAY BEGINS .... AND YOU FORGET..... WHAT HAS BEEN..... WHAT YOU TRIED TO HOLD ON TO THE NIGHT BEFORE....BUT ISNT IT WONDERFUL....WHEN YOU DONT..... WHEN INSTEAD....
YOU CAN ONLY COME TO THE MORNING THROUGH THE SHADOWS
~ J R R TOLKEIN ~
YOU STIR.... YOU WAKE VERY EARLY... AND JUST LIE THERE..... TOUCHING.... LISTENING TO SOMEONES BREATHING.... YOUR SKIN CLOSE TO THEIRS..... THE SOFTNESS... THE WARMTH.... THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT WAS BEFORE.... AND WHAT IS TO COME..... AND YOU WAIT...
KNOWING.... THEY WILL WAKE....AND YOU ARE WAITING..... EAGER.... WANTING....NEEDING.... CRAVING....
THEY START TO STIR....BUT....ITS NEVER QUITE QUICK ENOUGH..... SO YOU TOUCH THEM .... A LITTLE MORE FIRMLY....PRESS PARTS OF YOURSELF AGAINST THEM..... AND YET.... SLEEP HOLDS THEM....WONT LET THEM GO..... RESISTS GIVING THEM BACK....
SO YOU WRIGGLE.... YOU SIGH..... AND THEY STIR.... STRETCH..... AND SLEEP....STILL WONT LET GO.... SEEMING TO TAUNT ...TO TEASE YOU..... TO DARE YOU TO TAKE THEM BACK....
YOU LIE AND SMILE AND KNOW.....THEY WILL STIR....YOU WILL BE WAITING....YOU SNUGGLE AGAINST THEM.... FEEL THE HEAT FROM THEIR BODY..... AND REMEMBER THE SORENESS...THE ACHE..... AND YOU STROKE THEIR SKIN ...... FEEL THEIR BODY REACT...... THEIR EYES OPEN...
SLEEP.... HAS GIVEN THEM BACK TO YOU...... THEY ARE YOURS ONCE MORE....
THEY STIR.....THEY SIGH.... AND STILL HALF DROWSY THEY REACH FOR YOU....AS YOU REACH FOR THEM....
AND THE .......STIRRING.....BEGINS.....
HANDS TOUCH, EYES MEET,
SUDDEN SILENCE, SUDDEN HEAT.....
~ UNKNOWN ~
