Embers

What feeling is this which echoes down  
In a memory distant    
From a place beyond time    
To chime the heart and wreath the mind,    
Love at first sight    
Or remembrance divine?    
Do not think your memory fades    
For the distance of the days    
For even in winter’s shadowed depth    
The heart still dreams of spring    
    
And what could a man dream more    
Than the beauty yours?    
Though you claim that you’re not so    
I have seen with loving eyes    
And if love is blind    
Come nearer    
     
Why does the sun decline into night?    
For you –    
You’re the cause for which the moon does rise    
The shadows of evening soft shading your face    
And I    
I’ll tell you neither truth nor lie    
For what is either    
When with passion’s breath    
We curse like sailors while calling on God    
Your body urgent beneath mine own
     
I’m not drawn so much to your eyes    
As to your lips    
Their mere parting for breath    
The invitation to a kiss    
Your kisses melting like liquid night into mine    
This is not temptation    
Temptation lies in your eyes    
     
Your body is erotic writ in cursive    
Every curve begging only the punctuation    
I’m afraid my will power is limited      
By my power of observation    
And my desires keep me awake at night    
My dreams of you inexhaustible    
And inexorable    
With the closing of my eyes    
All is starlight and dreams    
Of dripping passion and gasps    
Between soft moans    
In a tangle of arms and legs    
And deliverance between your thighs    
If my speech is raw    
Your breasts are warm    
And too alluring    
And I can but wish    
I held your soft within my arms    
And you can see too easily where thoughts and dreams of you do lead    
To a prayer hoped answered need for need    
- For desire is ever so needy    
And I    
Without you to hold    
Cling to dreams    
Dreams of the night where our spirits dance within the ether    
And know each other ‘til dawn    
As we once were known    
As flaming fires    
Whose embers in dreams are still disclosed    
     
Do you remember a distant time    
When stars shown the brighter    
In delight of the night