My Darkest Desire



You remain my darkest desire
An ember within an eternal flame
I cannot have you in this world
So I dream of yesterdays passed and futures foretold
In distant lives
Speaking in tongues
I run my hand across the smooth curve of your breast
Kissing your mouth still hot from making love
In black sequestered solitude
We dance transfixed in rhythmic ecstasy
White curtains flowing in from the breeze from an opened window
Holding you close as time goes by transfixed
Waiting until the moment you are gone again
Fading into the majestic moments we shared 
An erotic lovers' pantomime
Hungry for what no longer remains
Wanting what can not be
Overcome by the beauty and tragedy of it all
Watching an old movie that ends at the beginning
Sadistically juxtaposed as life can be
In silence the tears come 
Reluctantly 
When they come at all
Passion and pain
Cruelty and grace
They are one and the same after all
Simmering in the hollow below the surface
Always
I recall your naked body 
In the shadows still
Remembering the nothing we had 
With a smile.