“She sang me a love song
with a juggle of her breast
And if she plays with me with her shirt off
we shall write another Iliad.”
She laid there – half, half naked, half, half asleep
My Ariandne, My Andromeda, My Apiolanus
Breathing tender silence
As I write her a love song
The words failed to flow
So, so and even so
I ran my fingers down her bare back
she gave a slight moan
This is not, no, not Prufrock, I guess,
No restless nights in some one night cheap hotels
No oyster dinner in half deserted restaurant
But the evening is etherized on the table
But still
I know those arms
I know them well
Braceleted, white and bare
The perfume from her skin fills the senses
of fond memories
and passionate nights
as darkness spreads across the sky
How do I begin?
I pulled the sheets off
Revealing more of her
examining her with endless idleness
I shall write her a love song
Her body so smooth and white
like the sable sky
Bejeweled with specks of stars
as she laid prone in her bed
of pale cream linen sheets
wrinkled in some areas
from the night before
and soft feather-down pillows
which laid beside her
partly concealing her full breast
I shall write her a love song
But where do I begin?
Do I dare?
Do I dare?
So I slipped silently beside her
and caressed her long flowing tresses
a gorgeous sinuous mane
unadorned with the myrrh of Orontes
that sparks an inner longing
a long hidden desire
kept secret from her
The walls in front of me
were pale white and blank
made paler by a pair of soft glowing lamps
which calmly sat beside her bed
A love song. A love song.
The echoes play upon each other in the twilight
seeking here and there a love song
Two big chairs guarded
their master as she sleeps
like some hound or beast
one of them held my trousers by its fangs
(I swear, with some evil intent)
the other tenderly held her thin silk dress from Cos
she slipped off last night
I stared at the ceiling
which held her radiant lustrous Halo
and prayed for some muse
or some kind hearted spirit or goddess
She roused, turned a little
and moved towards me
Her bosom pressed against my thigh
Stirring
Oh dear, I must write her a love song
I softly tapped, ever so faintly,
the pen on the pad I was holding
wary not to wake her
as my unquiet hand caressed her back
I shall write here a love song
as I gazed frozenly at her bare back
and even barer pad
like Argus on Io’s newly horned brow
Will there be time?
After the evening smog
rugs its elbows upon the window panes
Will there be time?
for one big decision
or a hundred other indecisions
Time for some divine inspiration
or some other revelation
Before the clanging of the bells
Before breakfast of coffee and toast
Will there be time?
She wakes
Smiled with Beckoning eyes
Shall I write her a love song?
Do i dare digress?
She turned!
I dropped my pen and pad
I guess
it’s yes!
I shall write her a love song
when this matter of a girl is exhausted