The Kiss

The shy glances, the awkward stare.  Both are searching, seeking, probing, hoping, wanting, and waiting.  Waiting for a sign, a roadmap, a signal to proceed.  As you lean in, your hand trembles and your lips swell with your heart.  You’ve given in to the temptation and you are entrusting your fate to chance.  Every inch closer to their lips is another mile down the endless cliff from which you have just jumped.  As your lips near theirs, the subtle soft breath from their nose brushes against your cheek and the warm glow radiating from their body lifts you high into the air.  Before you know it, you are flying; flying high above the cliff below.  When their lips grace yours, you look upward into the sun, and are filled with the warmth of the world.  The feeling of their skin tickling your cheek, the electricity created when you run your fingers through their soft hair, and the completeness felt when their body presses into yours combine to send you bursting through the atmosphere and into the heavens.  Upon looking down, you see yourself gently pull away and stare into each other’s eyes.  You both know instantly; that was not an ordinary kiss…