In the rain we met
On a Sunday too
A day for promenading
With a girl round Hyde Park

From nowhere you sprang
You appeared before me
Fresh faced - like the sun
Peeping through the rain clouds

Your pretty features - blonde hair
What - nineteen?
Too good for me
Yet you chose to stay

And you smiled as we walked
Laughing through the rain
As we shared my umbrella
And listened to the racists

And the Marxists,the athiests
Even the preachers too
And those who did announce
'That the end is nigh'

Your eyes sparkled
With the mirth and joy of it
To the world did we appear
Like another couple in love?

Perhaps - but then
I let you slip - I had to
And you joined the crowds on Oxford Street
And I chose to stay

With the Marxists in Hyde Park
In the rain
My love owned by another
On that Sunday afternoon.

Do YOU depict this scene?
For teenage Lovers
On an October night
Behind the supermarket walls

Here there are no rock pools
Left by an ebbing tide
Rather puddles in potholes
Polluted with diesel and oil

And what of music?
I hear no string quartet
Just tyres screeching rudely
And in the distance a siren wails

No moonlight either?
To fall on ivory skin
Just harsh neon
Man made glow against spray-on tan

Yet despite the shortcomings
This scene presents
This October night
There is passion, there is desire, there is love.

In the soft light
Of a new day
We lie at last as one
In the company of love

For each other
And for this time
The special hour of dawn
Between wakefulness and sleep

The light streams in
Through the window
It sets for me the scene
Of a new day for loving

Each other darling
A day for us
To know each other more
And explore each others hearts

The shadows play
Upon the wall
Cast by those trees outside
And I smile at their dancing

That's so like both
Our dancing hearts
Which to some unheard song
Keep silent, single rythym

I see your hair
A river now
Flow upon the pillow
And I love with it to play

For how it feels
So soft to me
Like finest Eastern silk
A flowing, silky river

I kiss your eyes
You're still asleep
And your sweet lips murmur
How I'd love to wake you up

And quickly say
I love you dear
But now I let you sleep
And prolong this special time

I stroke your neck
So pale and fair
Again I see you stir
So I wrap my arms around

You my lover
My only one
I draw your body near
And mould it unto my own

So all morning
We'll lie like this
What better can we do
For we've fallen both in love

With each other
With this time
This breaking hour of day
And to this, our morning song.

Through scent of frankincence
heady as she
I see her move
with Eritrean grace

Ebony skin I feel
moves my senses
Her jebena
shall ever hold my heart.

You are like:

Cherry Blossom petals
in spring
The long days
of summer
The rich colours given
by autumn
And Christmas
in winter.

Oh come, take your place with me now
Here by the warmth of the fire
Fall into the clutch of my arms
Feel my heart race with desire

For you and your tumbling hair
Your body, your eyes and your smile
Oh come, now remain in my grasp
Our passion has grown for a while

Lets see the light of that fire
Reflect on those locks of your hair
Let it also shine in your eyes
For they are beyond all compare

And let the flame glow on your lips
It serves to enhance their softness
And fall, when I call, deep in love
A love that is blessed with sweet kindness.

Tonight, my loved one, the silence
Is like a seductive whisper
That lies here between our bodies
As we embrace by the fire

And let the warmth that it gives us
Be held in our hearts for all time
The way its light plays on our skin
And the love it shows in our eyes

The spark that started that fire
Ignited, my sweet, between us
It grew as twin flames in our thoughts
Which blazed as they came together

So now to gaze in that fire
And hold you and kiss your sweet hair
And watch the flames rise around us
Like flickering dancers of love.