Dark Mistress 5-30-00

Pale moon glow reflected in your ebony eyes

Crow cawing high in the illuminated tree tops

You run through the night forest

Like a specter, your silver lace robe blowing in the wind

I follow, the warm breeze leaving my face wet

Splashing through a stream, the cold water chills my feet

You elude me like a dream forgotten

Or some hazy childhood memory

Not knowing if your love is true

Or if I am just your toy

You draw me like a Siren

As I sail through the forest on winged feet

My legs carrying me to you

My destiny, my home

Wanting you more than life itself

To once more taste your sweet lips

Feel your warm breath on my neck

Your cool fingers on my fevered brow

You are swift like lightening

As you lead me through the maze of pine

Occasionally I smell your fragrance

Drifting on the breeze

Suddenly you disappear

Into the moonlight shadows

I stumble across a log tumbling onto my stomach

I lay defeated

My passion unrequited

Feeling the sting of loss

Like burning coals against my delicate skin

My face pressed into the wet leaves

Strewn beneath me in a soft rug

My bare back scraped

I feel fingers like spiders legs tickling my spine

Turning over with pain

I look up seeing your dark eyes sparkling in the moonlight

Your aquiline face silhouetted against the soft yellow glow

Dark eyelashes traced across your almond eyes

Looking down at me hungrily

The desire written in your smirk

Lips full and generous and open

Hearing you sigh as you sit, cradling my head in your lap

Feeling your fingernails scrape through my scalp

My pain misting away

Morning light filling the forest

Morning birds sing

Celebrating the birth of a new day

You lay with me

Your body warming me

You take me

With the gentleness of a doe

Suckling his mother's breast

I feel your love like a cocoon

Wrapped around my wounded heart

Healing my tired soul

As though carrying me into the sky

To dance with you among the clouds