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This poem expresses passionate love and desire between two people through imagery of kissing. It describes the speaker deriving life and pleasure from kissing their lover's mouth, which tastes of peaches and ripe fruit. Their lips finding eternal union and rediscovery in each moment's height of passion. The speaker declares their mouth belongs to their lover and vice versa, openly professing their love after their mouths have come to intimately know one another in a way that has stripped away innocence. They beg their lover not to let them die, but rather keep giving them life through their kisses.

