Midnight in Eden

I spent a midnight in Eden

with you, where the sun was missing

giving us a waning moon

where we lay upon the grass with the lions

and the lambs and watch our dream drift away

like flames to burst and soar

weightless like time

innocence is a memory, a thought

abandoned

it’s mark upon your body

in the shape of a kiss

possession is futile

fear is abundant

and the fairies have come to play

your hands capture mine

in their warm chains of

skin and bone—so soft, so strong

we lie in this field of butterflies and

in this midnight caress

in this Eden

unite our pelvises to the sweet

music and cadence of

making love.