Tell me you want me.
Tell me you want me in as many ways
as a woman can want a man.

Tell me you want me so bad you move and burn
in your fragrant skin -
Tell me you crave me kinetically,
the way my bike lusts to lunge along the road
and thrust us together
with the force of its acceleration.

Tell me you to want me so bad
you’d commit crimes to be with me.
Tell me you want me so bad
you have no fear, no inhibitions,
you want no others.

Tell me you want me the way trees demand the release
of spring,
the way the ocean must fill its bed,
the way Earth and Moon are drawn to one another -
inescapable yet individuals…
Tell me you want me like gravity, like the elements;
like fire wants oxygen, like mountains want the sky,
like night wants day.

I want you.

I’ve been warned:
It’s dangerous and beautiful,
it’s heartache and silken joy,
and oh, how I want you.

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I wake up and look around the bedroom at objects
you’ve left behind for me:
your hair wrap
parts of your skirt
books
a camera
the glass ring on my finger
- artifacts of our lovemaking -
and I think of you.

I ride my bike through the cool thick morning air
and sunshine and Lawrence roads
I look down at the gas tank and gauges
I feel the vacuum at my back
and I think of you.

Standing at work running a noisy machine
suddenly the rhythm makes me think of you.

I see my computer sitting in email mode
and I must write you.
Here I am. There you are.
I want you.

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sheets of golden fire
waves of light
long rectangles through the blinds
all past and future laid out
in lines of white perspective
across the ceiling
atop us

an ocean of your taste
I close my eyes and clouds mount
a blue sky
fill and recede
my senses melt with your scent
and I must touch you

I must hold you so close we blur
passionsilklakeripplesboil
goldenpalewetskin
your touch electric cool, ice hot
my body a kiln and yours
we bake fire from fire
and try to hold it between us,
away from our hearts.

But I burn for you.
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Today I need
to sprint along the Edge
I need to laugh
into the darkness below
to mock it.

At the same time
I need to toss back my head
wind ripping at my hair
and watch the moon
rest majestic before the stars
as this earthen, human world rushes past.

I need to pull you to me
and crash our bodies together
like surf and rock
like a meteor flashing hot
against the sky
like a lifetime
of fucking rolled into once.

Like a soft kiss
damp lips and light breath on skin–
and bruising bites
leaving traces of blood
on my tongue and yours.

I need it all.
I can’t have you right now
so I close my eyes
and we’re together again.

You are bound craupadine
you are all mine
and I am all yours.
We play and laugh and love.
This becomes our world
our nirvana for the moment
timeless
senseless except for senses we stir:
Kubla Khan rises around us
the Great Pyramids
the canals of Mars, flowing
hot and molten Venus
oceanbeds swirl schools of tropical fish
dancing overhead
sunken ships and gold and whipfire lightning
flashing thick beneath the waves….

God I miss you.
That’s all this is supposed to say.

The Edge fades now.

You’ve helped me push at the skin
until my gleaming places sliced through
secrets revealed.

I can wait.
Life is good now.

I am so alive
and I am so in love.
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I want to make love to you
in Urquhart Castle
overlooking dark Loch Ness
towers tumbling onto green pastures
cool wind rustling aspen leaves
the scrapes of our footsteps stirring ghosts.

I want to hold you against the ancient stone
so you feel the chill of ages
seep into your flesh
while our bodies rub hot
and wet against one another.

I want to travel the world
with you
stopping to fuck amid ancient ruins
hollow castles
where history was made and lost:
Krak des Chevaliers in Syria -
tan stone Crusader stronghold;
vast Egyptian Mycenae
with its beheaded Lion Gate
and hilltop view of that rugged land;
Chateau Gaillard, commanding the Seine
atop 300-foot cliffs
brutal edges worn smooth
not by defeat but time and peace…

I want to make love to you
in all the British Isles
across Europe and Asia
on storming oceans and nighttime seas
up and down the Amazon and Nile
jungles and deserts:
all the places where the world changed;
I want to travel the globe with you
absorb history with you
make our own history.

I want it all
I want it with you.

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My lady’s presence makes the roses red,
Because to see her lips they blush for shame.
The lily’s leaves, for envy, pale became,
And her white hands in them this envy bred.
The marigold the leaves abroad doth spread,
Because the sun’s and her power is the same.
The violet of purple colour came.
Dyed in the blood she made my heart to shed.
In brief: all flowers from her their virtue take;
From her sweet breath their sweet smells do proceed;
The living heat which her eyebeams doth make
Warmeth the ground and quickeneth the seed.
The rain, wherewith she watereth the flowers,
Falls from mine eyes, which she dissolves in showers.

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Dear, I to thee this diamond commend,
In which a model of thyself I send.
How just unto thy joints this circlet sitteth,
So just thy face and shape my fancy fitteth.
The touch will try this ring of purest gold,
My touch tries thee, as pure though softer mold.
That metal precious is, the stone is true,
As true, and then how much more precious you.
The gem is clear, and hath nor needs no foil,
Thy face, nay more, thy fame is free from soil.
You’ll deem this dear, because from me you have it,
I deem your faith more dear, because you gave it.
This pointed diamond cuts glass and steel,
Your love’s like force in my firm heart I feel.
But this, as all things else, time wastes with wearing,
Where you my jewels multiply with bearing

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ab to yahii hai.n dil ki duaaye.n
bhuulane vaale bhuul hii jaaye.n

vajah-e-sitam kuchh ho to bataaye.n
ek muhabbat laakh Khataaye.n

dard-e-muhabbat dil me.n chhupaayaa
aa.Nkh ke aa.Nsuu kaise chhupaaye.n

hosh aur un kii diid kaa daavaa
dekhanevaale hosh me.n aaye.n

dil kii tabaahii bhuule nahii.n ham
dete hai.n ab tak un ko duaaye.n

rang-e-zamaanaa dekhanevaale
un kii nazar bhii dekhate jaaye.n

shuGl-e-mohabbat ab hai ye ‘Taskeen’
sher kahe.n aur jii bahalaaye.n

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zaraa chehare se kamalii ko haTaa do yaa rasuulallaah
hame.n bhii apanaa diivaanaa banaa do yaa rasuulallaah

muhabbat Gair se merii chhu.Daa do yaa rasuulallaah
merii so_ii hu_ii qismat jagaa do yaa rasuulallaah

ba.Dii qismat hamaarii hai ki ummat me.n tumhaarii hai.n
bharosaa diin duniyaa me.n tumhaaraa yaa rasuulallaah

andherii qabr me.n mujh ko akelaa chho.D jaaye.nge
vahaa.N ho fazl se tere ujaalaa yaa rasuulallaah

Khudaa mujh ko madiine me.n jo pahu.Nchaaye to bahatar hai
ki rauze par hii de duu.Ngaa jaa.N tak yaa rasuulallaah

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ye alag baat hai saaqii ki mujhe hosh nahii.n
hosh itanaa hai ki mai.n tujh se faraamosh nahii.n

mai.n terii mast nigaaho.n kaa bharam rakh luu.Ngaa
hosh aayaa bhii to kah duu.Ngaa mujhe hosh nahii.n

yaad itanaa hai ki pahu.Nchaa dar-e-maiKhaane tak
kyaa kahuu.N aage ki aage kaa mujhe hosh nahii.n

kabhii un mad_bharii aa.Nkho.n se piyaa thaa ik jaam
aaj tak hosh nahii.n hosh nahii.n hosh nahii.n

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us ne jab tyorii badal kar baat kii
miT ga_ii duniyaa merii jazbaat kii

tum ne shiishe pe jhuk kar baat kii
vo uThii kaalii ghaTaa barasaat kii

dil kii dha.Dakan ba.D rahii hai har nafas
tez hai raftaar paiGaamaat kii

tum mere duniyaa merii uqbaa merii
ab kamii mujh ko bhalaa kis baat kii

ro diye ham dekh kar suu-e-falak
us ne ha.Ns kar jab kisii se baat kii

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tujhe Dhuu.nDhataa thaa mai.n chaar-suu
terii shaan jalle jalaal huu.N
tuu milaa qariib-e-khoj luu.N
terii shaan jalle jalaal huu.N

terii yaad me.n hai kalii-kalii
hai chaman chaman me.n hubal alii
tuu basaa hai phuul me.n huu-ba-huu
terii shaan jalle jalaal huu.N

tere hukm se jo havaa chalii
to chaTak ke bolii kalii-kalii
hai kariim tuu rahiim tuu
terii shaan jalle jalaal huu.N

teraa jalvaa dono.n jahaa.N me.n hai
teraa nuur dono.n makaa.N me.n hai
yahaa.N tuu hii vahaa.N tuu hii tuu
terii shaan jalle jalaal huu.N

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tujh ko dariyaadilii kii qasam saaqiyaa
mushtaqil daur par daur chalataa rahe
raunaq-e-maikadaa yuu.N hii ba.Datii rahe
ik girataa rahe ik sambhalataa rahe

sirf shabanam hii shaan-e-gulistaa.N nahii.n
sholaa-o-gul kaa bhii daur chalataa rahe
ashk bhii chashm-e-pur_nam se bahate rahe.n
aur dil se dhu_aa.N bhii nikalataa rahe

tere kabaze me.n hai ye mizaamii jahaa.N
tuu jo chaahe to saharaa bane gulistaa.N
har nazar par terii phuul khilate rahe
har ishaare pe mausam badalataa rahe

tere chehare pe ye zulf bikharii hu_ii
niind kii god me.n subah nikharii hu_ii
aur is par sitam ye adaaye.N terii dil hai
aaKhir kahaa.N tak sambhalataa rahe

is me.n Khuun-e-tamannaa kii taasiir hai
ye vafaa-e-muhabbat kii tasviir hai
aisii tasviir badale ye mumkin nahii.n
rang chaahe zamaanaa badalataa rahe

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Tha.nDii havaa ke jho.nke chalate hai.n halake halake
aise me.n dil na to.Do vaade karo na kal ke

chalate hai.n ye bhii ham se tevar badal badal ke
jin ko sikhaayaa ham ne chalanaa sambhal sambhal ke

saaqii ne aaj mujh ko aisii nazar se dekhaa
mausam huaa gulaabii rangiin jaam chhalake

bistar kii silvaTo.n se ye mahasuus ho rahaa hai
to.Daa hai dam kisii ne karavaT badal badal ke

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qisse terii nazar ne sunaaye na phir kabhii
ham ne bhii dil ke daaG dikhaaye na phir kabhii

ai yaad-e-dost aaj tuu jii bhar ke dil dukhaa
shaayad ye raat hijr kii aaye na phir kabhii

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naa muhabbat naa dostii ke liye
vaqt rukataa nahii.n kisii ke liye

dil ko apane sazaa na de yuu.N hii
soch le aaj do gha.Dii ke liye

har ko_ii pyaar Dhuu.NDhataa hai yahaa.N
apanii tanhaa sii zindagii ke liye

vaqt ke saath saath chalataa rahe
yahii behatar hai aadamii ke liye

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