The Ancient Kiss

by Kevin T McEneaney

Can you recollect the first kiss you had?

Apes have been kissing for millennia.

Sometimes a kiss carries an electric charge…

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Have there been more wars than couples kissing?

Of course not, yet wars have a greater imprint.

Like us, animals can experience

joy, ecstasy, trauma, depression….

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In drama, the kiss may be betrayal,

but that is mere sensational technique,

although that may have happened quite rarely.

since everything has happened more than once

to a species that is as fickle as we are!

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While we humans are inconstant beings

the tender kiss still stands as poetry….