Graveyard Coffeehouse

Hard To Hold A Shooting Star

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It was the light
Within you that attracted me
Which was made
More spectacular
By the Night
Your dark demeanor
Downcast eyes
Drew me like a siren
A mythical creature
Part woman
Part demon
Seducing a lonely
Sailor out to sea
Far too long
Take me in your arms
The seductress sings
So sweet
Alluring
I am yours
For a moment of pleasure
Pain
Ecstasy
Full breasts
Bobbing atop
The waves
Of desire
Overcome
By passion
Sensuality
A bumbling fool
Hurling himself
Off a sailing ship
Of wood and iron
Into the cruel sea
To his untimely death
In cold icy
Unforgiving waves
Follow me down
She smiles
Wickedly
Down deep
To the bottom
Of the ocean
To become bleached
Bones and coral
A monument to love
Amongst
All the other
Doomed lovers
Lost forever
In the drowning pool
Of her eyes.