Drift, Taste, Memory

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Written in response to Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge on

https://godoggocafe.com/2020/04/21/tuesday-writing-prompt-challenge-tuesday-april-22-2020/comment-page-1/#comment-48478

I drift
Drift in purpose, direction,
Resolve in question.
Telling myself on repeat
I’ve no need, no want
Of soft skin against mine.
To feel another’s heart beat
Against my chest.
Though I remember,
Though I can still imagine,
When I close my eyes
What it is
To close my hand round the soft hand of another,
To fall asleep embracing—entwined, entangled,
To wake and smell sleep warmed skin,
To touch and take and give and kiss
Before coffee should touch my lips.
Such hunger is not a thing I allow myself to taste,
The risk too rich, too great to let it touch upon the tongue.
I am not young enough for a taste of what
Should bring me to my knees—
Of what I imagine
That she’d taste like memory.

6 thoughts on “Drift, Taste, Memory”

  1. A tantalising poem, with a candid and defusing finale….
    ” Such hunger is not a thing I allow myself to taste,
    The risk too rich, too great to let it touch upon the tongue.
    I am not young enough for a taste of what
    Should bring me to my knees—
    Of what I imagine
    That she’d taste like memory.”

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