Summer Rain

Photo: (c) Jamie K. Reaser

You came like a long absent lover

at the end of a parched day,

gentle at first,

fully present, I thought,

this will last the night.

Oh welcome!

But then,

Such fervor!

I wondered in that moment if

it was our desperately

wanting you that had unbridled
your thunderous passions.

It seemed as if even you longed

to surrender to the other’s

most deeply sculpted longing.

But then,

How could you?

So soon you departed!

We are left feeling unquenched.

Do you hear?

Lips merely brushing past
each other can say nothing

of a kiss.

~ Jamie K. Reaser

Published in  "Sacred Reciprocity: Courting the Beloved in Everyday Life" 

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