If you could grant me the courage to ask, I would claim the right to love you once more. Not for a few moments or merely a handful of days, but this time the right to love you through all eternity.
I want to love you captive in my cupped hands, hidden from all others, held close in my embrace. This time with my lips upon your lips, hand upon hand and eye beyond eye, I want to love you.
Holding your face gently between my palms, I want to kiss with all my heart your sleeping eyes and mouth. This time not from any desire or the turbulent echoes that raise storms within the chest, but rather I want to lose these eyes of mine however I wish, wherever I wish, in the pupils of your eyes.
This time not in the triumph of conquest or dressed as a defeated soldier, but rather in your tenderness and faithfulness, I want to love as an utterly ordinary woman, defeated and aching with your love.
Not in some woman's physical love, but as love's indivisible soul I want to love my lifelong love. Will you grant me the right to fulfill this one desire? Will you, tell me? One more unbroken leisure to love...will you give it? One more chance to unfold myself in your likeness...will you, tell me?
One more time, simply to love you, I want to be born as yours alone. Not by breaking myself completely apart, but simply placing my hand gently in yours, though distance upon distance may come, remaining only yours, I want to traverse with you the rest of this life's path somehow, anyhow. One more time, as yours alone, I want to be born with the right to love you.