Yours was the name

That so oft hung upon my lips;

Yours so beautiful and seductive

That I still long to kiss

 

On my tongue still rolls

That sweet dreamy taste

Of days filled with a kind of loving

That knew not the word ‘haste’

 

Instead it glided smoothly

Betwixt us; I unbeknownst

That such heavenly rapture

Could on Earth have existence

 

And yet with its so swift departure

I am forced to start anew;

Eradicating ecstasy

And the only love I found to be true

 

To become the very shadow, the very dream

Of sublime femininity that I crave;

A hopeless longing

For the soft female touch that

Will surely go with me to the grave