Happy Endings

Lying next to you

So often

We could be a thousand miles apart

and never touch each other

While making love

My fingers walk the contour of you body

Slowly
Slower

Softly

Tickling your aura
Touching your soul

but still keeping at arms length
Protecting my heart

While I wait in anticipation to taste you

Your lips

Softly
Softer

Against mine

As my fingers walk the contour of your body

Blindly
Boldly

As they have so many times

Freely

As your breath shallows in anticipation of the inevitable

Our minds wondering

and I know

and you know that I know

that there is no forever for us

There never was

and no happy endings…