One Kiss

One kiss, love,
can offer up
a world unborn,
as a seed
holds the flower
not yet sprouted
but no less real
before its green
becoming.

It can murmur
many words
in languages
as yet unlearned
foretelling stories
still to be written.

In one kiss
resides
the possibility
of hope,
the danger
of hurt.

One kiss, Love,
offers a chance
we can risk
or refuse,
a portal
that opens
or closes.

Our choice.

One kiss, Love,
so little,
and, perhaps,
so much.
- mce