A kiss would change

Should I have kissed you as we shared the dawning ? 

There was no-one around

to view our secret assignation,

our tryst in the coolness of the morning.

We would have changed,
princess,

by the brushing of our lips,

the touch of skin to skin.

But you are not ugly or deformed,

you are as you should be

unique, alert ,

not without charm or intrigue,

and change is not always better.

A kiss would have changed all that.

Maybe you prefer to avoid

the upright two-legged

bluster, that is our daily rote.

True, you wander dangers of your own,

deadly paths, ignorant of mortgages

taxes and supermarkets.

A kiss would have changed all that.

And imagine my disappointment

if my kiss had been inadequate

and your refusal

had made the change

in me.