He carried me like an ineluctable completion on the immortal summits of the ecstasy.
When our hearts and bodies finally calmed down, I lay awake, snuggled in those arms that held me with unspeakable affection, listening to his breath.
So this is the act of carnal love. I turned my eyes back to the sky.
How many times had it witnessed this dance of flesh. It was my turn to know it, and if I could be forgiven for loving, then let me be forgiven. For I will be able to destroy anything that takes him away from me. He who bore the tenderness of his people, for his people, that tenderness which you, majesties, bore for him at the very moment of his birth. So I beg you to watch over your son, over us, we who will also take the path you once took against all odds in the name of this incomparable feeling, and carry us in your thoughts forever.
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