And Now

Walking through the restaurant on the way back to his seat
he spied a face so perfect that his heart began to beat.
The closer to inspection, the more and more it sped,
until when then he had nearly passed, a pounding in his head!
His feet walked by, but somehow left his own attention waning,
and as he travelled on ahead his energy was draining.
At last he turned and looked full face into these eyes divine
and as if he had had no choice at all and possession had his mind,
he blurted out in warmest tones expressing all his bliss,
"I wonder if you'd humor me and let me have a kiss."

She looked unflinching, smiling at his gesture
and after seeming thought of it, she then assented, "Yes, Sir.
Only this that if you'll thus indulge me in my own desire,
I'll take you at your word and so we'll coax a gentle fire,
for if we make this salutation you must mean it so,
and I will need to ask a question, and you must let me know."
The man was puzzled but relented, a kiss just simply for his thought
he realized just where he was, looked around and nodded, "Yes, why not?
"I need to know," she lilted, pursing tongue in lip,
"what was it finally won your need to ask me from the hip
if I would let you have a kiss and be so wholly mine?"
Now self-consciously he bantered quandaried to his spine,
"I merely saw those languid lips and face so well perfected,
when at last I then beheld your stature then my heart was thus corrected;
I had thought that I had seen a beauty wisping in my dream
but you have captured all my thoughts in one fantastic scheme."
She stood aloft then delicate, unmasking in her faintest motion
and everyone at every table lost their sense of all commotion.
In silence sat the entire room as she reached out to him
and leaned to taste his lip full on and filled him to the brim
and when the kiss had nearly lost its power to hold him in its sphere
she renewed the charge again in orbit's path to make the heavens clear.
The patrons gasped and could not for life begin to disengage;
it was as if they'd lost their freedom from the carriage of their cage.
The man was hardly breathing and when she let him go
she looked at him and uttered only, "Thanks….. and now you know."

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