Tumultuous black hole
of unchartered emotions,
a journey
of trepidation
made on tooth-pick legs.

Wrong time.
Wrong place.

Yet you couldn't be
more right.

You are so familiar to me -
I know you,
I feel,
just as I know myself.
I've felt the soft dark
pain of your fear as
I kissed your tender skin,
and tasted the tears
of tortured vulnerability.