Studiously learning what’s in the Mazatlán, They caught each other’s eye as she sat in a corner booth, The gleam he saw aglow there, he began to dwell upon, The radiance of her countenance was akin to light and truth
He joked and mugged and walked a wire, She gestured, and, the flames grew higher, She told him of her man betrothed, He shuddered but appeared unmoved.
But growing way down, deep inside him, There welled a thirst, so powerfully pure, He tried to bury it, to push it down, But drawing him, pulling him, her enticing allure,
They stood calf-deep near Ontario’s shore The moon smiled down and charged their glow She’d lower her eyes and his heart would soar That moon knew things that she didn’t know
For he whispered to the moon his heart’s desire That this fair maiden would one day be his, And the mother of the fates was summoned by wire And soon, on the island, it was sealed with a kiss!
And she changed her destiny and his heart leapt for joy! She could not have known how happy she made him; There were fireworks and magic for that unseasoned boy He was glad his thirsty thoughts had betrayed him
Fast forward five years, to a kneeler on the altar A bond was forged there - which never will falter And darling new creatures now fill their book And he is even more smitten than at that first look