It was the startling with you <br />from the nascent look <br />and unspoken electricity <br />a leaping across <br />an unexpected grabbing <br />of me at my center <br />a caught unawareness <br />a swept away <br />where the instant <br />stretched for an eon <br />from handshake to hello <br />a weakening in the body <br />a trembling in the knees <br />in the most vulnerable parts <br />of the soul; <br />a shuddering <br />in parts below <br />a cry from long nights <br />laments <br />and longings <br />a stifling of the desire <br />to consume and be consumed <br />by you and to consume you <br />ravenously <br />completely <br />and we both be gone <br />away. <br /> <br />That my love <br />is how it felt <br />when we first met <br />and still when we kiss.<br /><br />Lonnie Hicks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ravenously/
