Refusal

    Beloved,

    In her lives or lands

    have I known your lips

    Your hands

    Your Laughter brave

    Irreverent.

    t excesses t

    I do adore.

    surety is there

    t  again,

    On other worlds some

    Future time undated.

    I defy my bodys e.

    it the promise

    Of one more s encounter

    I  deign to die.