As the day ends

And the light wanes

I lift your exquisite,

Gothic face to mine

And you give me

Stained glass and gravestones

Summer breath

Rossetti gaze

Young flesh

Near decay

Perfume of dusk

Innocence and lust

Velvet shrouded

Warm embracing

Garden bohemia

Overwhelming

Intoxicating

All-pervading

Supernature

Labyrinth embroidered

Enigma unfolded

Time entwined

Melancholia

Simplicity, complexity

From sweet lips to

Deep secrets to

Shadowed cloisters

That beckon and

Lead us to redemption

Honeysuckle

Half-light

This moment

Is eternity