Reasons

 
If I need a reason to kiss you,
to run my tongue across your lips,
it would be because the sun rose
or because birds fly.

If there needs to be a reason to hold you,
to feel you pressed against me in embrace,
perhaps the fact that flowers bloom
would be a reason why.

If I must have a reason to want you,
perhaps because the moon shines;
coyotes howl and fishes swim
is what I'd say?

And if there needs to be a reason
why I love you like I do,
it can only be because 
my heart beats every day.


april 2004
ŠJanet Reid






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