Abundance

           Abundance

The gentleness of lips contemplating

A kiss, or speaking, calls up fullness through

The heart or thought.  The lips give due weighting

To passion in the chest, in senses true

To honesty, or mysteries unknown

But felt.  The softness of the mouth which wants

The uttering of truth will not disown

The harsh demands of love.  The softness flaunts

Its velvet-like timidity but then

It pleads its point.  The brown suffused with pink

(Inside the pout of flesh) in dark-skinned men

Becomes the opening, the manly chink

For necessary proclamations held

Back, sentiments or facts that can’t be quelled.