Unspoken Offering

He awakens with the taste of her in his mouth. Languorously he lifts his eyelids glancing across the room, Aphrodite caressed by silk curtains aflutter in the late afternoon breeze. Beauty written in sungold across her beloved profile. His groin stirs with a heavy pulse Her long back lures his eyes downward to pause upon the curve of her derriere' the hunger pounding heavier now She turns, her eyes smile the truth He blinks. She’s gone. Grief ripples across the room, pushing hard against the window of his soul.