Let us close the door
behind us,
shut the world away.
Slowly, slowly, off
slip our clothes.
It is as if gods
were releasing their essence
we are those gods,
you and I
deep in the eyes
our arms raising.
Hush —
let us do without words
only sighs
only whispers
only glances
only touches
soft and gentle
Before you, someone made the Earth
and the moon
and the comet,
fire in the pitch of space.
What will we make, you and I?
a rush of blood and water,
a tropical sun,
moonrise over a mountain
a mighty river’s murmur
in her bed.
The gods watch over us.
Time himself attends us,
standing stock still.
Even their keen stares cannot hold back
the first word we speak:
Everything.
