Love Poem: Slowly, Carefully, Lovingly
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Written by: Evelyn James

Slowly, Carefully, Lovingly

I watched you as you Smiled softly, strolling through the stools. Your shirt clung to you like The spidery fingers of love that gripped me. Your matted hair was silky soft And your skin felt like satin on my lips. Your name was heavenly on my tongue and only divine Intervention could stop me from loving you. But I doubt that even that, would stop the infection Slowly rushing through my veins, paralysing me, Heart outwards. The heat and fire and web of desire That was woven by the spiders of passion, Caught the flies of love. It devoured them Slowly, Carefully, Lovingly. Like my mind seemed to drink in your presence. Slowly, Carefully, Lovingly. My eyes raked over every detail, not allowing You to escape me. Your hands, those hands which I Had longed to caress, touched my back softly, And shook me from my observations as you Had shaken my world so many months before. You smiled gently down at me. And then you disappeared, like a perfect dream. Gone, before I could kiss you once again, Slowly, Carefully, Lovingly.