Agathias -A Kiss Within The Cup

I am not a wine drinker.
But if you want me drunk,
Taste it first, bring it to me
And I will drink it.
For if you touch it with your lips,
It will not be easy to keep sober
Or escape the sweet cup-bearer,
For the cup ferries over a kiss from you
And tells me of the grace it had.

A TK rewriting from the Gutenberg version of Select Epigrams from the Greek by Machail