Prompt 17: I Sing

On the melodies of contentment

The two friends, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, 
To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, 
To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing,
laughing flesh is enough, 
To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then? 

I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea. 
There is something in staying close to men and women
and looking on them,
and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well, 
All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.

-Walt Whitman, I Sing The Body Electric