A kiss is not a kiss

A kiss is not a kiss

If it is left on the lips

To be wiped away

By the back of a hand

A breath of wind

Has greater impact

Than a thorn

From a single rose

Plucked from a flower

Sellers basket

At a junction

On the North Circular

To be presented

At the table as

A grand gesture

On a first date

That will go nowhere

Without

The tingle of a first kiss

Causing chaos

To the order

Of predictable

Patterns of behaviour

When breathing

Stops

Being automatic

Actions are randomised

Conscious acts

Are replayed

In a different order

Until restart

Time without mind

When realisation

Catches up

With unaccountable

Euphoria

A kiss is not a kiss

Until there is connection

From the outside...

In.