those sweet excesses that I do adore

Beloved, 

In what other lives or lands 

Have I known your lips 

Your Hands 

Your Laughter brave 

Irreverent. 

Those sweet excesses that 

I do adore. 

What surety is there 

That we will meet again, 

On other worlds some 

Future time undated. 

I defy my body's haste. 

Without the promise 

Of one more sweet encounter 

I will not deign to die.

[Maya Angelou {1928-2014} 'Refusal', from And Still I Rise]