Have you held love in your hands?
When she comes released from the shackles and is given reign to reach for me. She is taken up in my arms and wrapped as she yet quivers. The delicate shivering I feel in each of her muscles as they melt into mine gives me wave upon wave of sensate delight. Her bowed head and fragile cheek placed at the base of my throat while she shakes as though at the very end of a sob. The little shimmying as the violence trails off and slips into beatific memory.
My arms encompass her trembling flesh as it melds with mine and I wonder that she has bone and sinew, so lithely does she slip into my encirclement and so fully does she fuse with my body. The ever so slight tremors give me such contentment that I would keep her here in my arms, limp and galvanized, spent and intense, until another dawn would come, but instead I will lay her gently to rest and we will sleep in dreamless, depthless satiety twined together.
Before then, I will hold love in my hands. It doesn't slip through fingers like water, nor dance at the edge of self like thought. Her tendered being flows into me like the fluid given to vessel and her opened ipseity washes through my nerves like idea given voice.
Her hair smells of henna and frail perspirance and my face buries into it without conscious urging. It overpowers me. Her shoulders shudder with the sigh of fulfillment and my lips find her scalp and caress their way to the back of her neck. They nibble a frisson from her and a soft "oohh!" slips out.
Her hand reaches up to move her hair fromout my way and I capture it gently. The wrist carries marks that my lips soothe. Red bracelet lines of tight bindings. They are heated to the sensitive touch of my tongue and I can't help but lick the chafing ever so slightly. The merest flicker of the tip against abraded skin even as a kiss is pushed against the entire circlet, arc by arc. Reminder of the restraints so recently removed and the way she had so uncontrollably pitched and lurched, jerked and squirmed. And screamed.
I let the arm go and it floats there, suspended in liquefied inertia before gradually releasing. My fingers braid with hers on the other hand and I bring that wrist to my mouth to salve the burning. The skin here is even more denuded as her right hand struggled on after the left surrendered in fatigue. Her upper arms shake with the movement and the spasms I feel through her body send molten want splashing over my senses.