Memory

Memory
Just as a beach will remember the tide
long after the ocean that once ravished
it daily has ascended to air and
joined the clouds, so I will remember
the insistence of your mouth on mine,
the way your hands clutched like starfish
to my back as I moved both over and
within you, breathing your breath, matching
my thrusts to your heartbeat, till for one
moment, brief and eternal, we are
one.