Sweltering, sultry
oppressive summer heat breeds...

Helpless little babies maligned,
suffering at the hands of another, again...

Giving a voice to thoughts and feelings,
writing and speaking words of adoration...

Hope,
sanguine expectations...

She sits on the floor by her cedar hope chest,
filled over the years with letters, gifts, photos...

Quote by Toto
As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you...

I imagine your sensitive, sensible arms, exquisite
exquisite, exciting arms holding me, hands...

When you look into my eyes anew,
and say, please do love me true...

Snow melting, water dripping, drop by drop.
Soon those drops begin to build on the one before...

If only you could feel the breeze caressing your...
and know it is me, far away, touching you with...

(Written for a club challenge based on the number...
Tonight the moon and stars are out...

In the midnight hour
when sleep won't come...