FOREVER NOT YOURS, Love Poetry by Gloria D. Gonsalves

Part of the 2016 LOVE Poetry Festival.

FOREVER NOT YOURS
by Gloria D. Gonsalves

You came and left fast like a thin Santa in a fat chimney

with promised gifts of goodness.

I remember your worshiping of my body like sacred petals of

a flower and heralding me your godly foreplay.

Your unsaid words showered me with deeds of heavenly award

that made Venus gasp with envy.

The kisses that you whispered to me were angelic hymns
of redemption, blooming what had long gone withered.

Caressing dormancy to awakenings of red purity and

passionate avalanches. Nothing of me was spared from melting.

I was flown into the heart of your eyes mirroring startling thirst

to be taken with the wings of adoration and submission.

Exhausted with imperfect melodies, you fine-tuned my hesitations

with forbidden baton of arousal.

Unleashing the timid façade, I dared to excel in the challenge

of unrestrained…