A few random seconds
we chanced together
snatched with each other
sheepishly smiled
always wondered
“What would be?”
Each meeting was
a first meeting
a strange meeting~
around us the cosmos
softened, dissolved~
delicious obliviousness~
we were always waiting
waiting slyly.
Ageless breath fills the void~
your nosestud gleams
in the centre of gyrating
galaxies~
I reach out all the way
all personal metaphorical
flagella~ feel feel feel
the tender tentacles
the moist touch~
Your nose, your mouth
my ageless wonder~
What? even you respire
like mammals perspire
like pinkpanthers
chew plantains
like chimpanzees~
No, unscathed by
the caricature of physiology by
the mutilations of familiarity
I retain you as an ideal, a quality~
a distant halo sprawled in the
memory,
a pure odourless essence
clad in green
a soft breathing nascence
cast in stone
a smiling radiance.