I could feel the tickle of the toes <br />And the lunging tear of the eye <br />Yet I could not finish what I aspired <br />Nor imprint what legacies venerated <br />As an immortal phenomenon <br />Sublimed in to thin air <br /> <br />I drew you in the midst of passion <br />Of an uncharted moment <br />A tryst with destiny, and her wheels <br />I surrendered like a ship to a lighthouse <br />Wanting what others possessed <br />And what I couldn't hold even for a fragment of time <br /> <br />Bliss abandoned me, watered saliva soothed me <br />Tongues groped blindly <br />Marooned by the eye lids <br />I could not sustain my desire <br />Nor blossom like a flower <br />Liberated by my lips' virginity <br />Yet I stood now, a slave to her essence <br /> <br />I interluded, crumbling inside <br />Caught by destiny's fold <br />Caged in an anti-thesis <br />Of what anticipation sculpted <br />And reality relegated <br />A flower with no nectar or taste <br /> <br />A foray to the unknown, that awoke me <br />To the pits of expectation <br />And the thorns of actuality <br />A first kiss to the labile grip of time <br />To strange lips that estranged desire <br />What jostled with fate but rustled to fault <br /> <br />For lips don't matter <br />Only the heart beneath her........<br /><br />Dilantha Gunawardana<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-anticlimactic-first-kiss/
