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From: "Mareel" <mareel@gmail.com>
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Subject: NEW ENT:  Elusive 1/1 [PG] (A/R)
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Title: Elusive
Author: Mareel
Contact: Mareel@earthlink.net
Author's URL: www.geocities.com/bdebpr
Series: Enterprise
Rating: PG
Status: Complete
Codes: Drabble, A/R
Archive: Permission to archive granted to ASC*, EntSTCommunity, Others
welcome, please ask.
Disclaimer: Of course they belong to Paramount, or more likely, to
themselves

Summary: Two kisses
Author's Notes: On the occasion of the one-year anniversary of Treksoap
Jon and Mal's first kiss in the airlock (of Shran's ship), but one need
not know any specifics to relate to the memory of a first kiss... or of
those that followed. This is the sixteenth in a series of drabbles in
the Just Before Morning series (sequel to You Cry).

***

Elusive


engraved on the memory of my lips
carved deep into my heart
our first kiss

summoned by a thought
the moment draws me back
to reenact it in my mind

the time and place... the way you looked
the words I used... and your reply
a year ago

... ... ...

another kiss
elusive, this one
no special moment to enshrine it

the place and time ambiguous...
shared in passion or in solace
did it speak of promise... or forgiveness?

it resists my clinging to it,
dancing just beyond reach
on my heart's edge

I ache,
just praying
it was not our last

***
Finis



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