Love's Soft Caress

With love in our eyes and warmth in our hearts,
The kissing and petting soon start.
To hold, and be held, our bodies entwine and meld.
Excitement and passion soon burst alight.
We grope and tumble, in joy and delight.
From the depths of memory, long suppressed,
Innocent touches bring instant distress.
Fiery passions and flames of desire,
Extinguished in an instant…
By love’s soft caress.
The warmth of rapture turned cold as stone,
Withdrawing inside herself, wounded and alone.
Reliving the pain of a cruel experience,
Over… and over again.
The confusion, the worry. What have I done?
I’ve crossed some boundary, unseen and unknown.
And again, she suffers, ever alone.
The hurt so evident in her sad distant eyes,
Not seeing outward, but at something inside.
What pain or horror from that distant past,
Can still control her from that instant to this very last?
The fear and anguish that I’ve brought this about,
Is there no way I can help? Remove this pain? Take it out?
It’s too deep to reach, so deep inside.
I can but hold her till the fear subsides…
And again, she can hide… and the pain suppress…
Setting the trap once more… For Love’s soft caress…