Love and Lost Chances

By Heather Sager

Giddy in the moment, you, too,

your face in a window’s radiance,

we chatted for not time enough,

words fade into warm hazy

mind pool

Your skin against my mouth,

the heat of an ecstatic sun-world,

radiant against a whole planet

of flowers inside me.

My lips held back

from the brave kiss

but I couldn’t deny the feelings

that spun like planets.

I would pick a frail flower of my self

for you.