Our love a distant island, locked by a shimmering sea,
Marooned by the stars within her eyes, she casts her gaze on me,
The nets of need I ache within, that her heart mine alone,
Secluded in a distant dream, I wish the truth be known?
For tempted she the breeze to blow, to cool my seas afire,
She beckons of my heart to know, in laments of pure desire!
That all who see her beauty, may wish their need to say,
As she tempts in waves of sirens, and asks mans soul to stray,
This love I keep a secret, to never speak its wake,
To hold within my heart now, as the ripples on the lake,
For ever she to leave me, that my heart be forlorn,
My island left not virgin, and its sandy beaches torn,
To cast me to the deepest fear, her love she gives to fate,
That all I am would so become my heart, a shriveled hate!
So make me then an island, and meet her there with me,
That only stars then written, on an open empty sea,
No other hearts within this world, this heaven I come to know,
And the secret of our destiny, my eyes will never show!
She is my sky, the palms that shade, the kiss upon my soul,
Without her I am cast alone, not one, not heart, not whole!
That nature goads the man in me, it will not show its head,
That she may others hearts to see, in the worlds unruly bed!
For secret I shall keep of her, and locked in treasured cask,
That I to look within her eyes,
And need to never ask?
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You wrote this with such perfection!
