JUST A WHILE

I wish you here beside me for a while, just a while   here high beneath a sunset sky cragged and caged in tumbling rocks while deep below the surge of the sea scintillates and sings with rubies, amber, and garnets all in a glint and glow   Yes, I wish you here beside me when the dip of the sun plays hide and seek dizzy in the highlights of your hair spread tickling snug across my shoulders and your warm soft breath soothes my skin and stirs my soul   And I wish you here beside me Where the shift of sand seeps between bare and tingling toes along the languid liquid line ‘twixt sea and shadowed shore   Oh I wish you here beside me in this arms-and-waist-laced stroll when [in this dream] you stub your toe: an intake of breath and “Kiss it better” “Well … I’ll start there,” I reply and the hint-glint in my wild and wicked eye turns your girlish grimace to giggles and the sensual promise of a sultry night   I wish you here beside me once in a while, just once in a while   while my free-born spirit mounts white horses to the soaring surf of distant shores an ocean’s breadth away, and dream as I ride that far-flung tide in just a little reverie for just a little while …  

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