one day i see you naked bathing in the river <br />we are lovers and i could have called your name <br />and then i go naked myself and then we bathe together <br />and make the most of the youth of time <br /> <br />i hide behind the leaves <br />to feast on your beauty <br /> <br />more beautiful when untouched <br />more sublime when unconsumed <br /> <br />it is the distance <br />something beyond the reach of my hands <br />beyond my grasp <br />completes us<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/one-day-i-see-you-naked-bathing-in-the-river/