Poetry, Way with Words

Desire

Posted by xxyourholly on

Poem by Langston Hughes

Desire to us
Was like a double death,
Swift dying
Of our mingled breath,
Evaporation
Of an unknown strange perfume
Between us quickly
In a naked
Room.

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