Refusal by Maya Angelou
Beloved
In what other lives or hands
Have I known your lips
Your hands
Your laughter brave
Irreverent
Those sweet excesses that
I do Adore
What sorety 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.