Pramila Khadun writes

Let me know your love first

Touch me not,

Kiss me not,

Let me know your love first

Before I know your touches

And your kisses.

I know that your love

Will direct the course of my life.

Like a brook, I will flow

With grace ineffable

To touch distant lands, distant climes,

Where rapture of a warmth sublime

Lies in store for me.

All my conflicting emotions

Have settled down

Like dust in water

And a clear stream of reason

Watches my heart bleed

Willingly and joyfully

As your love adds wings to my heart.

Let this love seep deep

In every atom of my heart’s cells.

Let your love have no other desire

But to fulfill itself,

Wholesome, complete, incisive.

Hunter of my heart,

Waves always recede from the shore.

Let not the waves of your love

Go far from the shores of my heart

And plunge me in the agonizing abyss

Of sadness tranquil.

Let me know your love first

Before I know your kisses

And your touches.

There’s nothing sweeter

Than a kiss bathed in love

And nothing more passionate

Than a touch tied with love. 



New Horizons -- Bill Bate