A Kiss Before Sleeping
A kiss of love in the dark
the last kiss before we sleep
to each other as one and to God
we give that our love will keep
More than adjoining airs and touch,
and all that may go unsaid
so much of us is revealed
in the home we know as our bed
This kiss should always say Love
and confirm at every day‘s end
you, my co-protector, my calming shores,
inspiration and strength, lover and friend
I love you, it should further attest,
as you exist most comfortably in your skin
and lips, when relearning a body well,
promising I would fall again and again
Our kiss in the night, a safe haven
for all that’s concealed in a day
The balance unshared by words alone
can be shared between two this way
Hearts of true love know not simple kisses
in each there is meaning to take
every last kiss is not an end, but beginning
and should last until the next, when we awake
~ Originally written 7/2004