Kiss
A finger is better than any ring
The sea more meaningful than any ship
For nature is the anthem the birds sing
My nature is to kiss you lip to lip
We two whose parts fit into perfect one
By nature drawn together hip to hip
Are bound not by a ring nor anything
But life itself yet there is nothing more
Our children after our parents before
The here and now of us is everything
A mind is not a matter of degree
The spacetime fabric elastic and whole
Transcends artificial conformity
Face to face we kiss as soul touches soul
+Steven Curtis Lance
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