He pleaded with me to touch his skin

   Encouraged by love and wine

While his hands tried their path

   To wander over mine

He had long given chase in arguments and debates

   Why we should be lovers

Confessions of love and loyalty

   To get me under covers

Talk of roses and faded blooms

   And wasting not our lives

Was to, I guess cause me to swoon

   And easily give up the fight

Do you think it will work on me?

   Using what I write

And how our time is fleeting

   And we are all but dust

No faster fleeting than is your love

   When completed is your lust

If  to win me by debate

   Be sure you are my equal

Nothing lower does rate

   Than a poorly redone sequel

You might possibly rate higher

   If you tried being kind

Little you could do right now

   Would ever change my mind

Your new tactic?  To wear me down.

   Possibly exhaust me?

In your persistence to lay me down?

   But only sleep will this cost me!

He begged me, bade me

   “Please touch my skin”

Till at last I begged him

   Please touch me once again

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