I felt it once--

Your hand in mine

Your fingers gently

Tracing my lips

I saw it once--

That look in your eye

As you watched me sleep

Without my knowledge

I tasted it once--

The soothing feel

As your tongue parted my lips

Exploring everything in your path

I smelled it once--

That cologne that draped

Across my sheets and stayed

Long after you had disappeared.

I heard it once--

Your moaning call

As you held me tightly

Softly whispering my name

I had all these things once

My five senses alert; awoken

By your presence, once long lost

That had then returned

But just that once

I had those senses

Until you were no longer here

And I was left only with

Their distant memory.