AFTER AN AFFAIR

 

After an affair

All too brief

Barely any more

Than an aperitif

She stole my heart

Like a common thief

To leave me

Alone in my grief

HOW VIVIDLY I RECALL

 

How vividly I recall

Seeing you standing there

Dressed in white silk

I still feel the despair

Watching the woman, I love

Stood for all to see

Making her vows

To a man who wasn’t me

SALT ‘N’ PEPPER HEADED LADY FAIR

 

All I can do is stand and stare

At the salt ‘n’ peppered lady fair

The woman with the greying hair

Oh beautiful lady standing there

With tresses of salt ‘n’ pepper hair

Please be the answer to my prayer

 

Our course changed

By great waves of doom

Driving us on

Against our rudders will

To end us on a shallow reef

THE FLAME WAS EXTINGUISHED

 

Guttering slowly to its end

The flame was extinguished

A fire once white hot

Headed toward extinction

As passions cool

In the diminishing heat

Of the sombre ashes

Red fades to grey

To leave despairingly

Loves dying embers

Its flame long extinguished

MY PROPOSAL WAS REHEARSED

 

My proposal was rehearsed

I felt quietly confident

I maintained composure

Tinged with excitement

And I was quite shocked

To find her ambivalent

THROUGH SILENT TEARS

 

I look back through silent tears

To those long-forgotten years

When love was young, as were we

And you were to shy to speak to me

And I was too scared to speak to you

But some how we muddled through

And by some kind of strange detente

We spoke whispers full of loving want

And together spent a very happy life

A very happy husband and wife

Yes, we certainly muddled through

Until I had to say goodbye to you

But soon we’ll be together dear

And I won’t have to shed another tear

FROM THE SIGHT OF THE FIRST SWALLOW

 

From the sight of the first swallow

To the moment of the last fall of snow

More than a short romantic interlude

But nonetheless it was bound to conclude

A love born beneath a swallow’s wing

Perished on the very eve of spring