Poetry: Kissing you

By: Raquel Dionísio

The best thing about kissing you

Is how close my face gets to yours

That way, everything else disappears

And I can only see you 

Kissing you like this

Just gently on the lips

It is the only time

I am not missing you 

When our lips touch

For just a split second

It is the highlight of my day,

My week, my month,

Until my lips get to touch yours again 

If I am not touching you

I am missing you

There is no other state 

I start missing you the second our gaze parts

Even if I can still hear your steps walking away 

When we say goodbye

My stomach wants to leave with you

Just rip its way out of my body

And leave me rotting inside

Gutless... And missing you.