The Time Has Come

I agonize and dream I use my claws  
To rake them down your spine & ride you slow  
The humid slick is running down the walls  
The night is thick with nowhere else to go  
 
To rake them down your spine & ride you slow  
As lightning shakes the thunder from the sky  
The night is thick with nowhere else to go  
Each tremor taking us before they die  
 
As lightning shakes the thunder from the sky  
Denying us the rain that comes alone  
Each tremor taking us before they die  
That soon will bring a deluge of our own  
 
Denying us the rain that comes alone  
While lovers steal the moment from within  
That soon will bring a deluge of our own  
And join ecstatically our naked sin  
 
While lovers steal the moment from within  
A salty tidal surge from evening's heat  
And join ecstatically our naked sin  
Until our passion wanes in slow retreat  
 
A salty tidal surge from evening's heat  
The deeper night appears as moon ascends  
Until our passion wanes in slow retreat  
But time has come I need no more pretend  
 
The deeper night appears as moon ascends  
The humid slick is running down the walls  
But time has come I need no more pretend  
I agonize and dream I use my claws  
 
 
(A Pantoum: rhyme scheme: abab, 10-syllable line count.)