Last Night

Last night

My bed was a placid sea
Of lucid premonitions
Like gentle waves
They frolicked in my sleep
Away from the day’s delirium

Last night
Your eyes were like the setting sun
Still and distant
They sank over the horizon
As the night embraced me
Into your dark spell

Last night
I drank wine
From your intoxicating mouth
Your lips supple like grapes
Of red and satin thirst
I drowned in your abysmal kisses

Tonight
I stare at white sheets
And close my eyes
Visions of your naked skin appear
Like dandelions from the midnight sky
Brush my chest with subtlety

Tonight
I caress your hair
When dreams beset me
Like a dark river your hair
Flows through my body
And bathe me with temptation

Tonight
I close my eyes
And await your silhouette
Dreams of naked promises
Of pillowing and stained sheets
Your starlit eyes and venomous lips

The night
My abyss of secrets and dreams
Eyes closed from the tempest
Unlit room and shadowy blanket
I wait for my midnight visitor
Every night, like the night before that.

- Shogunoka, 11/2008