Almost a death wish holding me captive

sucking my gaze into their limpid depths

lost in their mythical trance

were they just your eyes

tearing me apart with their lethal dance?

 

Scalding me with their scarlet wetness

they burned my very skin with each touch

pale as they took my life-blood away

just your moist lips

holding mine in their mesmeric sway.

 

Locked in a maelstrom I can't fathom

helpless in a soft, warm ecstasy

I surrender before heaven's door

Was it just your touch

a feral tenderness I've never known before?

 

Earthy passion mingled in perfumed sweat

assails my senses as I draw hopelessly

breathing in ever and ever more

Is it just your smell

benumbing aroma breaking from every pore?

 

The gates of paradise swing open

time ticks slowly by in quiet celebration

the restless night almost gone

locked in our embrace

we walk together towards a new dawn.

~Bittersweet~