AFTER PLAY

Lying in the arms you shared

Naked with your being

And emotions

Drained you lie

But not spent

And your thoughts

Are everything but

A lover’s lament.

The smell of love

Caressing your nostrils

The sweat of passionate toil

A balm upon your senses

The warmth of togetherness

Distance consumed

A mellow sigh

Passions resumed.

You stare at the ceiling

And wink at the shadows

You exhale gently

Lest she gets up

You feel her hair

Upon your face

Her eyelids flutter

With amazing grace.

You sink deeper into her hug

Wrapped in a time warp, you’re smug

The veins in your wrist touching hers

Your heart beating against her softness

Fingers kissing at the tips

Sweet surrender brushing your lips

And you lie never to sleep

And sleep not ever to awaken.

Heightened senses of spent energy

Now a relaxed metabolism

Of satiation

A never ending tomorrow

A continual now

Threads of humanity

Forever linked

With the umbilical called love.

~Vikram C~

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