Love Poem: Eternal Embrace

Eternal Embrace

it was a happenstance meeting and perchance my destiny,
my fate or maybe it was to be my doom-
I had been walking the woods alone and he came to me
a handsome stranger, hypnotic . . . 
how I found myself in this place is uncertain but
the walls are damp and musty and draped with moss
I hear dripping water echoing from somewhere and I tremble
yet, I somehow already love him . . . 
I brush his dank raven hair from his forehead
the tendrils soft as a spiders web
oh, surely this is reckless folly . . . 
slowly his kisses follow the contour of my neck
and his whispers are like a drug to my soul
my hair flows like a dark rive, and 
the promise between us are words unsaid . . . 
I sigh and moan, and 
my heart flutters and quivers with desire
all thoughts of my life drift away
all the scars have gone in this surreal love
and I have left the ravaged garden that I called living
red-   a daub of blood trickles from his lips
and I kiss the smear away hungrily . . . 
suddenly, a wafting gust of wind is whirling
around us and we hover in a forever 
eternal
embrace . . . 

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January 17, 2019


Poetry/Free Verse/Eternal Embrace
Copyright Protected, ID 19-1105-728-02
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym.


Written for the contest,  Eight Word Challenge, Bardenesque
sponsor, John Hamilton

Third Place