(Gee, thank you for these prompts, Leslie. Only one possible today...)The Gentle Breeze
(September 1985)
Tom stood there with his hands resting on Ennis’s shoulders. Tom could feel the tight muscles slowly begin to loosen. Tom slid his hands lower and helped Ennis up and then led him to the bed. Tom wrapped his arms around him and slowly began to kiss Ennis’s moist face and his neck. Then Tom opened the buttons of his shirt, one by one, as Ennis closed his eyes and softly began to moan. Tom took off Ennis’s shirt, then opened his pants, and soon they were on the bed. They became a jumble of arms and legs, with hands and lips and tongues moving all over, slowly at first and then faster and faster and faster, until they couldn’t any more, and they lay spent and exhausted on the bed.
There Ennis and Tom slept, their limbs intertwined, naked, with just a thin sheet tangled up all around them. As they slept, a soft gust of wind blew the door open. The visitor arrived. The visitor slowly moved inside the trailer, and then went to the bed where he gazed upon them. He came from a long ways away, just as he did once before. This night the planets were aligned.
The visitor smiled a weary smile as he watched them sleep, with satisfied peaceful expressions on their faces. He stood over them for a long time. Despite the smile, the aching pain grew stronger and stronger within his willowy being.
Finally, the visitor smoothed the hair off Ennis’s forehead with a gentle hand, and caressed his face. The visitor then tenderly kissed Ennis’s cheek and then his lips. “Until next time” he whispered. The visitor turned and moved towards the door, stopping to glance back at the bed one last time. Then the visitor left, as the door closed quietly behind him. He slowly went back to where he came from, with a gentle breeze swirling all around.