It feels the way I hoped it would feel

The closest comparison I can offer is that this feels like I got kissed. When I was a kid who wanted to kiss someone, the few occasions in which I actually got to kiss that person represented a conversion from dream to fact. To want overwhelms the senses. It’s busy, it’s feverish, it’s puzzling, it clouds the vision and rings in the ears. And then one gets what one wants and everything goes quiet. I don’t have to wonder anymore what it might feel like, because it feels li