One Last Kiss

Last kiss

That I hoped would never end

My eyes closed, hers too (I looked),

And I threw all my passion into it, hoping,

Really hoping that I would always be able to remember

What her lips felt like, the sweetness of her breath and hearing

The slight sigh that she and I uttered at the same time, in rhythm.

Time.

Where did it go?

I had just arrived yesterday

And the one day together too

Swiftly flew! Oh the sorrow that such joy can foster!

Half the day was spent rejoicing, making up for lost time,

The other half devoured in angst dreading the one last touch,

The one last kiss, the one last good-bye, the one last everything.

But not the one last tear.

O lente, lente, currite noctis equi!

My soul had not been given though like Faustus for his own glory

But my heart had been transplanted into her, and hers into me

In a surgery that began slowly from the moment our eyes first melted

With the winter snows and the young crocus of life dared to drink the sky.

Yet together, but anxious, a kid in front of a candy store with a twenty dollar bill

But the store is locked, closed for the night, and the night watchman says

Beat it, kid.

I open my eyes. The world is running on its daily track, and everybody around

Me who surely must understand my pain, my sadness at leaving, goes on as

If nothing is happening, as if there is no hurry, no urgency to say those

Meaningful words before we part. Freeze! Stop world! Sun, stand still! I beg you!

I beg you.

Flight 297 will be boarding in 30 minutes.

Flight 297 will be boarding in 2 minutes.

Flight 297 is boarding.

Good-bye, my love

May I have just

One last kiss?

Please?

One?