Be Mine Alone
Paraffin pours on my nervous system,
you laid a match to it
with your smile;
and it flared and roared and burned
with every advance you spurned;
I collapse into ashes and blood,
swirled away an inflammatory flood
of tearful beseeching and craving
from a soul that begs for saving;
and my love crowned a fool on a throne,
won't you please be mine alone?
Emollient smiles on my ragged life,
you salvaged all of me
just by being;
you soothe and tend and heal
with a sumptuous, soft appeal;
I cascade into dreams and desires
with a singing of harpsichord wires;
sweetest spasms of longing and aching
in a heart that is yours for the taking;
you have touched everything I have known,
won't you please be mine alone?
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