Here’s my new poem:

“The Smile of Love”

She whispers into my ear,
revealing love’s quiet secret:
happiness lives in a smile.

She leans toward me,
desiring my peace, my assurance,
resting her head against my chest:
waiting, breathing in slow motion,
as if my heart itself
must learn how to curve into joy,
her delight
the soft seduction of love.

I feel it rise slowly,
that gentle awakening,
a smile forming not just on my lips
but in the quiet spaces between us,
where breath meets breath
and longing softens into warm embrace .

A smile, I say to her, is
an eternal gesture
of bliss,
of desire,
of memory being born
in the fragile now.

A smile has a soul, she whispers.
It dwells at the edge
where love and happiness
speak in silence,
where tenderness becomes knowing,
where intimacy
is the quiet secret of commitment.

Pure.
Sublime.
Mesmerizing.