A poem about love and desire by David Tombale: Into the night

Into the night is about the idea of taking the one you love by the hand and leading them to a place where you can both be free.

Into the night

Graceful arch of neck bid me enter,

bid me shelter beneath your warmth,

your loving touch, your dark embrace,

your kisses ripen like a peach and I ache,

I burn to suckle upon your sweetness,

beneath the shade of your father’s porch

the distant tail lights of a passing truck

carry our love beyond the city limits

where these prying eyes won’t witness,

where I can look upon you in the glow

of the overhead lights as the needle peaks

and we flee out into the night.