Memories Of Young Summer
So often it was in the evening glow,
as the shadows cling low and deep,
you would nap on the olde front swing
and I'd come to watch you sleep.
Apollo's car would nearly be out of sight
and the zephyr's whistling soft and warm
would muss your hair so playfully -
like a boy's without a care might be --
Oh how my heart would fill with love.
The sun would dance across your face
like golden fae on a roses blush.
But no attention did you pay
as you slept there in the sun.
Your lips of mauve, slightly moist,
glistened in the glow.
Feeling me with a silent need
to touch them, taste them, kiss them...
Ah, but that would break the spell.
I recall the wysteria, wild and free,
growing beside you silently
and how the vines nearly brushed your brow.
Their purple radiance tinged your face
and mottled the tender peach of your skin
with a gentle glow of aubergine.
So like faded bruises I should kiss away
with butterfly kisses and soothing words
but to do so would wake you too soon, too soon.
But before Diana would raise her midnight eye
you'd softly stir and lift your head
to smile at me there in the dim.
You'd open wide your eager arms
beckoning me to be wrapped in them
like a welcome blanket on a chilly eve.
Kissing me there as night would rise
and we'd love throughout the eve --
Ah, memories of young summers and you. |