Ambassador Pairs

I'd kiss you a thousand times
And myriad more
As your patience permits
When all other needs be met
And there's time to explore
Close your eyes
One less sense
Intensifies the rest

When our work be done
Tools of wishful prosperity handled not
When dust be swept, even as it collects,
Let us let our lips descend
Those tender pairs
Those nerve-rich love ambassadors
Persuade us to switch
Brave faces for warm places
Cool reason for growth seasons
And pray, pray, if the world be at bay,
Let their rhetoric allow us to trade
Calloused skin for a way in

-Gary VanConant