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Rated: E · Poetry · Adult · #986489

A love poem for my husband--a counterpoem to "killing with kindness"


Freefalling

I am as close as you wish
like a dish of ice-cream
spooning in your mouth.

I am as far as the starlight
awash in the drift of your eyes.

I am tethered to your tenderness
lashed with lacings
of safety and trust.

I balloon through the universe
a mute parachutist
freefalling
into love.
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