First let me tell you about your eyes, bright with something deep inside them. No clichΓ© about stars or fire suffices; they simply light with primal joy. At least they do whenever I gaze in them, whenever I look in your face framed by your flowing hair. I want to believe you look at me in a special way that you look at no other. Though perhaps you do not, given the exuberance of your whole being. You radiate peace and joy given to the Woodstock generation, and look transcendental in long flowing skirts and soft cotton tops that ripple as you sway your slim long beautiful body. You are my friend and possibly unaware of how I look at you, certainly unaware of how I think of you.
These thoughts I keep secret not for shyness, but for the fact that you are married, for the fact that your friendship is vital to me, for the fact that we have separate lives that intertwine in a deeply ethereal but only lightly physical way. Our connections deepen with words that can only be hinted through action. But the brain is a wondrous creature; sensations are triggered as much in wild mind as in sensuous fingertips.
If you close your eyes you can imagine a great canyon stretching before you; place your toes right on the cliff's edge and stare down. You will feel the rush as if the depths truly yawned before you. You will feel the wind caress its fingertips over your cheeks just as you would if you truly stood there. The mind knows no difference.
Now close your eyes and imagine, Belladonna, we are on an island. We are in a place that belongs only to us. The water, cobalt blue, rolls gentle waves that hush softly upon crystalline pink sands. The day has been spent in languorous conversation pleasant as the low and steady white noise of a pearly shell held to the ear. No rush but the skittering sandpipers foraging for tidbits. We watch the blue sky go golden, then tangerine, then crimson with silvered wisps of clouds as I slide my arm gently along your back, enjoying the touch of your skin along my fingertips. What wonderful anticipation in making a move, the joy of holding back with not a touch all day. The indescribable romance of the sunset melds perfectly synchronous with the sensuality of my smooth fingertips slipping over your back, my arm pulling you into my body. The friendly conversation of the day transitions into the wordless conversation of the evening.
Your eyes sparkle diamond glints reflected from the waves as you and I turn from the fading crimson horizon to each other's eager face. Lips part softly as we press them together, not the gentle kiss of friends, but the tender kiss of lovers. Red glows on your cheeks as the kiss lasts minutes, as I feel the ragged heat of the day fade from without and the burning heat from within simmer and rise. I could kiss you, Belladonna, for hours, and it may have been by the time I pull back, smile, and rise, offering to take your hand sweetly in mine. I pull you to standing, slip my arms around the small of your back, to kiss you again, more deeply in the pale glow of moonlight as shards of silver snake over the dark waters.
With your hand in mine, we walk the cooling sand into the palm grove, wordlessly moving closer to the steady sound of falling water. We reach at last the lagoon, awash in the gentle roar of water and steady chirp of the night creatures, of which we now are two. At the bank, we kiss again, my hand slipping under your soft cotton blouse. Clothes are important only to shield the sun here, but the eroticism of hidden treasure heightens the play. I slip my hands up your back, as you pull back and lift your arms. In the silhouette of you, the blouse is like a curtain lifting before the anticipated play, your hair tumbling down over bare shoulders, stirs me even more deeply. I hold your shoulders in my hands, squeeze firmly as you reciprocate, unbuttoning my cotton shirt and sliding long fingernails over my downy chest as I drop my arms back to let the fabric fall. Slipping my hands to your waist, I pull you into me. This kiss presses harder, more passionately as our tongues snake and charm each other to the mesmerizing music of the tropic passion. I feel your chest against mine, a feeling I have yearned for countless years. My fingernails rake up your back as yours clench into my spine.
Combing my fingers through your hair, I run a finger along the nape of your neck, then trace a line back down your spine down to the small of your back to slip another to the zipper of your skirt. Our torsos have pressed hard to each other as I feel the heat of your essence grinding against mine as we exchange breathless moans inside hungry kisses. My lips suck on your bottom lip and slowly trail across your cheek, down your throat. I feel the deep sigh in your throat as I suck your skin in pulses, timing the passionate sucks to my sliding down the zipper, enough so your skirt falls down your long legs. Your hands rake my chest, slide down my abdomen, clasp the button of my shorts, working it and the zipper open to likewise leave me clad only in undergarments.