the lightness of your cheek

Here's today's entry from the pictured 2003 compilation ...

... probably Meg Bateman's most well-known poem - Lightness (Aotromachd in the Gaelic original):


Lightness

It was your lightness that drew me,
The lightness of your talk and your laughter,
The lightness of your cheek in my hands,
Your sweet gentle modest lightness;
And it is the lightness of your kiss
That is starving my mouth,
And the lightness of your embrace
That will let me go adrift.

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Meg Bateman (1959 - )

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