As I held your hot palm
in the dead of a long night,
and your body tasted fever
for the first time in your
innocent, blessed life
I realised that real love
was this.
Powerful, maternal, and consuming;
my prayers are couplets
that I chant for you
and for your life to be
a bed of beautiful, red roses
even if no human has had
that good fortune yet.
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