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What is it about you that manages to pierce me, that manages to tap into me, that stirs my spirit, that nearly innately compels me to endeavor, to toil, to live?

What is it about you that draws me close to you, searching or yearning for your company?

What is it about you that pervades my every waking moment with thoughts of you?

You're inside of me...now a comforting presence, one that allows me to laugh so frequently. Where can I go that you're not with me?

It is as if I've found a well of nourishment in you, one that I seek to draw on to satiate my thirst. It is as if my definitions of pleasure or happiness or joy are established by you.

And you, you represent some entity of nothing but only the most beautiful of what Life is.

I seek you, I want the opportunity yet again to paint with a brush of passion the lust for life I have upon your canvas of skin.

[submitted 02/21/04]