Love Poem: Tempted

Tempted

~ TEMPTED ONE ~


Angel ...

    Tread soft near me ...
 Pray thee, tread light and soft.
Shall I yet awaken to the buffet of your wings?
 Come, night, those diaphanous pinions
    To enfold me, trembling.

Bleed the will from my flesh ...
   Dare you barter the moon to squander time
    With such a worldly creature as this?
   Oh, what mortal madness be yet ours,
Your heavenly covenant in ruin!

    To just once drink deep the mix of
 This callow mouth and thy starlit tresses, spilling ...
Love forbidden and a passion, insatiate, draws naught but poison.
 Let that bane be our undoing ... our ardent curse.
    Entwined, delirious ... falling ... tumbling ...

ONE.



     ~ TEMPTED TWO ~


     Demoness ...

Tread soft near me ...
   Pray thee, tread light and soft.
    Shall I yet awaken to the warmth of your hellfire?
   I am your infernal progeny, birthed of you and heaven.
I have been torn with your ire, rent and burned ...

    By the cold flames of your skin on mine.
 Dare you mix such immaculate flesh with this gypsy, forsaken?
I am thrall, with but a timid taste of your dark nectar ...
 Oh, to pierce you with the keen blade of truth,
    To slay your hot impiety, kill you with love,

And sate the horrid heart's hunger.
   We swim the moonlight and each other ...
    Bare and bold, torn and told of sacred secrets, gained in treason.
   Let that lie be our salvation, for we rise in desire ...
We soar erotic, prurient, woven, interlaced ...

    ONE.





~ 2nd Place ~  in the "Strand Select O Any Form Any Theme" Poetry Contest, Brian Strand, Judge & Sponsor.