skin

the softness of your skin dissolves me

in the tenderness of your touch, i disappear

and the frontier of our separation opens and melts
as identical light falling on two countries

my skin opens to you and you enter what was once me

just as we have shared the air, our breath,
we now share this space between our atoms

this hybrid being is the source all all life

this shared essence is the beginning and the end of all things

the end of our skin is the beginning of our love --End