Felicity
extends her left arm
While casually yet carefully
examining the lit tip
Last cigarette
The fountains babble
and Martini glasses gather
like harbingers of doom
She's in a mood
As this year now draws
to its' inevitable close
Yet sheer beauty radiates
Out from in her
She draws attention
Knowing I think of another
by now at Canary Wharf
I fetch more drinks
A couple embrace
Kiss in what strikes me here tonight
as most illicit somehow
Illicit, yes
and us complicit
But secrets come too easily
in all my interactions
Felicities
Much more beautiful
with moonlight on their naked skin
than they appeared in the dark
Abstractedly
I touch her shoulder
As I touched in fertile summer
the fleshy, tender belly
Of another
Who did not love me
and was never Felicity
like this well-dressed girl tonight
So shall the next
as yet unlived year
bring more of this challenge
Imposters and intruders
To inner peace
Agents of discord
****** and killing a dreamscape
of a love that is settled
Felicity
Her eyes follow me
with cigarette between pink lips
that at midnight will speak truth.
Dec 31, 2016
Dec 31, 2016 at 11:12 AM UTC
Felicity
extends her left arm
While casually yet carefully
examining the lit tip
Last cigarette
The fountains babble
and Martini glasses gather
like harbingers of doom
She's in a mood
As this year now draws
to its' inevitable close
Yet sheer beauty radiates
Out from in her
She draws attention
Knowing I think of another
by now at Canary Wharf
I fetch more drinks
A couple embrace
Kiss in what strikes me here tonight
as most illicit somehow
Illicit, yes
and us complicit
But secrets come too easily
in all my interactions
Felicities
Much more beautiful
with moonlight on their naked skin
than they appeared in the dark
Abstractedly
I touch her shoulder
As I touched in fertile summer
the fleshy, tender belly
Of another
Who did not love me
and was never Felicity
like this well-dressed girl tonight
So shall the next
as yet unlived year
bring more of this challenge
Imposters and intruders
To inner peace
Agents of discord
****** and killing a dreamscape
of a love that is settled
Felicity
Her eyes follow me
with cigarette between pink lips
that at midnight will speak truth.
