A Memory of Summer
You rose from the water shimmering wet
O, light on your fertile frame glistening
Umbrella in the azure sky, my hunger set
Intense where you curved and was dripping
Like a petal lifted on a wind, you ran to me
Over sheets of golden sand. We clung and kiss
Velvet flesh against velvet skin, the memory
Elicting sudden rushes of joy, an elixir of bliss
And none can know the quiet peace of that day
Love certain as the sun before you went away
Wind wash in perfume where the jasmines spray
Amorous magic upon the summer day of May
Young we were, with dreams of diamonds on the tide
Senseless I was to court the tragic moon as bride.
Joy is a memory sweeter than the gritting sand
Of pain. When age has wrinkled you like a flower
Yearn to stand there again, I will hold your hand.
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