Night Thoughts

If in this soundless, lonely night

When the wind is chill

And the moon is bright,

We lie here in the dust

Vines are creeping ‘round our ankles

Tightening with unbidden lust,

And the inky sky above

Only knows our deepest secrets,

The firmament glints with sudden love.

 

And in your ambiguous eyes

Tentative feelings blossom

Like roiling clouds in milky skies...

We might raise trembling fingers

To the boundless vault of heaven

Where only crystal starlight lingers,

Inscribing our names in constellations,

Feeling all the new sensations

And releasing fevered imaginations.