Refusal

Beloved,

In what other lives or lands

Have I known your lips

Your hands

Your laughter brave

Irreverent.

Those sweet expressions that

I do adore.

What surety is there

That we will meet again,

On other worlds some

Future time undated

I defy my body's haste.

Without the promise

Of one more sweet encounter

I will not deign to die.

-Maya Angelou

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