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