In The Stillness Of The Night Poem by Linda Marie Van Tassell

Lips touching lips in the stillness of the night
beneath the esoteric shadow of a tree.
The moon touches the moment with tender light -
the moment when my heart is kissed right out of me.

Hands sweep my shoulders to brush my hair away.
I close my eyes as soft hands embrace my sweet face.
Moist lips devour mine; our tongues dance a ballet.
I lose my self, my breath, my sense of time and space.

Fire burns in my flesh; hunger dwells in my eyes.
Darts of desire shoot from my breast to my skirt's hem.
He presses me back; I feel my heat rise.
He steps back to look at me, and I, look, at him.

Poised in conjunction with a breathless restraint,
we smile like two secrets that have rolled ashore.
We move into each other, and I am faint.
The trounce of lust finds us upon the forest floor.

Sweet weight is upon me! His breath on my brow.
His lips consume me; I am a plum plucked divine.
Tangled together in fervent kisses. Wow!
We are drunk as can be as drunk on turpentine.

In the net of his kisses, I do delight.
I am captured; and yet, I am quiescent free.
I melt in his kisses, his enraptured sight.
He is god, and his dominion entices me.

We are trammelled in sheets of pulsing pleasure,
a dalliance of soul and sense and love and lust.
We clutch at the core of this naked treasure.
Two bodies, one pulse: a fire about to combust!

In frenzy, ardency becomes rough regard.
He tantalizes my body from head to toe.
Legs between legs, my softness to his hard.
Reckless and ravishing all that we dare to know.

Button by button, I slowly come undone.
The trembling of time is like fingers on skin.
Soul into soul, we transmigrate into one.
Body to body, sliding out and sliding in.

Infinite, eternal, everything that is …
a sword in the sand and a stroke from out the sky.
A moment that's mine and a moment that's his,
a moment to live forever and never die.

Lips touching lips in the stillness of the night
where two bodies move in impassioned endeavor,
a flowering unseen and curtained from sight
though it shall reside in my soul forever.