AS YOU CROSS THE ROOM

as you cross the room

my glad eyes cannot leave you

each step seduction

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no matter the crowd

you're the only one i see

all else is nothing

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you want me to watch

every sinful move you make

give it my blessing

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i can hear you sing

take me out to the ball game

as we undress each other

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tonight it's satin

nothing stops its gentle touch

across her body

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falling hair conceals

secrets she has bared for him

he brushes it aside

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born together

when the universe began

brothers sisters and lovers

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of her own free will

dropped her past left all behind

came naked to me

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her voice rises to

soaring cries of ecstasy

before deep silence

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she can be two women

sweet and smiling lady or

sexy and sassy

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dances her own tune

she colors outside the lines

loves like no one else

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we two travelers

upon our different paths

again and again

passing beginnings

endings that might have met

had fate so decreed

two hearts on the wind

shout distant echoing words

as if from one heart

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she's a free spirit

bit of a bohemian

open heart and mind

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such sweet silent words

cunning language that i speak

she replies with sighs

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behind happy smile

lie her well-hidden desires

the poet has seen

• Donovan Baldwin