A Timeless Moment

Your surrender to me 
is the ultimate sacrifice -
the O of every orgasm 
and the M of every mantra 
that has passed  
from your scowling lips.  

I love you 
for letting me enter your past, 
for letting me slither 
through the O of your beginning,
for absolving me 
in the dark pinkness of your womb.  

You are 
the ultimate manifestation - 
you lover, you mother, 
you murderer!  

I lay myself supine at your altar,
worship the glittering menorah,
incandescent in your eyes.

Your face
is a thunderburst of falling stars.  

You are the universe, this moment,
and this moment is all -
there is nothing beyond it.  

We are timeless 
in this placeless place -
I drown 
in the salt sweetness of you,
you witch, you goddess,
you everything.  

I am rapt,
a ship to the siren rock,
a fool 
gone one step too far
over the cliff.

Your arms are every place I am:  
your road is the only one I know, 
you Sheila Na Gig,  
you golden thread,  
you weeping Ariadne.  

We are one,
Hermes and Aphrodite
suiciding our selves 
in the name of each other.

Widow and widower,
apostles of the moment,
ragged to the rapture,
caught in a loop of ecstasy.

I cry out and you cry out - 
your terror, your despair, 
your elation...

it's as if you believe
we're fucking
on the edge of an abyss.