a strangers kiss

i used to guess
if it tasted like this,
i never knew until
i had a strangers kiss,
i never knew
what was amiss,
until i had
a strangers kiss,
you said your name
was Merry Bliss
but i never knew
until i had your kiss,
shining eyes
smiling kiss,
surely you're
my Nemesis,
my life was
my (parenthesis)
until i had a
strangers kiss.

1973