Love's blind touch gropes in our dark
and I hear you giggle
reveling in the hide and seek
in your cape of satin sheets
the lights out
pitch black
the only sound
is of stealthy breathing
which first lurks
and then leaps
straight onto my back
I shriek the shriek
and you the vampire bat
clutching my trembling neck
yelling gitty up! gitty up!
and I fall
down pretending dead
as you pause
unseen in the dark
and then I rise
and blind leap
catching you hiding
at the side of the bed;
you shriek
and outside the kids bang on the door
saying
'if you two don't
cut it out
we're calling 911.'
Let us in!
We giggle;
crouched inside.
Lonnie Hicks
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-s-dark-touch/
