Photo Finish Poem by John Sensele

Photo-finish when in her amiable arms I tremble
As love chemicals react with measured fact
To melt my pretence we'll never amble
Arm in arm again as long as I treat with contempt my cosy contact.

Photo-finish when we osculate
To blot away passersby and busybodies
As love forces in us inoculate
Renewed hope in a scope that conquer antibodies.

Photo-finish when from both of us apologies
Flow to restore our relationship to a pristine state
As we determine to jettison tautologies
That promote confusion and demote prisons of fate.

Photo-finish when she confesses her love for me
To run rings of adrenalin
In my veins as she hands over the key
To our bright future in a gesture clean.

Photo-finish when from on high descends my manna
To heal aches and mistakes
I thought stuck like plaque in my scanner
As I take my deserved sweepstakes.

Photo-finish when smiles become my portion
Every morning, every afternoon, every night
As forces of good debate merits and demerits of abortion
Among teenagers who put up a gallant fight.