Ah!

Ah!

My sweet darling,
How often I come
to you, hoping 

That
somehow just being
with you will erase
all my cares.

I
am captured by
your scent; dizzy
with desire,
lost in forever moments.

Re
member me, make me
hard and strong, be
a bulwark against my foes.

Your
love rises, a dove –
white, fluttering;
silent in the evening,
raucous with the dawn.

Do
not wake me. Let me
dream in your arms,
‘til in your kindness …

swooning I die.

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