Other Loves

A View to Sea

Come, Love, stay a while atop these ragged cliffs

And cast your fears like stones into the foam;

Curse the swift-descending purple night which

Extinguishes the light of one more borrowed day

And dance with me neath sunset's funeral pyre‎.

Closer, Love, and hold me under Heaven's fire

And trade your pain in past calamities for dreams;

Praise the slow-unending drift of evening which

Invigorates the dark with promises of unmet life

And lie with me neath twilight's silver burn.

August 2016 (E)