10.11.08

The kiss


"Before you kissed me 
only winds of heaven
Had kissed me, and the tenderness of rain -
Now you have come, 
how can I care for kisses
Like theirs again?...

I am my love's and he is mine forever,
Sealed with a seal and safe forevermore - 
Think you 
that I could let a beggar enter
Where a king stood before? "

by Sara Teasdale