kiss

I've had a couple of suggestions I should join in with Abigail's Monthly Monday Poetry posts, but this is the first time I have participated. This is not a new poem, but written a few years ago - using the analogy of a kiss to try and describe something achingly profound.

kiss
so intrinsically human
this heart-movement
a flurry of glittering
emotions peppered
with awe, amazed -
herself in his company -
swaying touch of
a strange compatibility
and a unique sadness
found only in joy
of a soft and stirring
kind, which melds her,
to the gaze of eyes
impaired by weak human
vision and yet - glimpsing
a greater beneath
of the surface above
which is mere bubbling.

seeing the divine kiss
of God making man
and woman
the love-seal aching
our incompleteness
soothed yet scorched
by recognition
of the broken, but
sharing tears, surrendering
selfishness, wanting
more than what we came for.
approaching the remaking:
the promise of the kiss
that came and lived
among the scarred limbs,
this half way house
a painful tenderness.
hallowed ground
beneath our feet
may we always remember
to take off our shoes. (C) Lucy Mills