Pearls are not enough

Serene, smiling coyly

Leaning back against a door frame

Fashionably dressed wearing only pearls

That surely smile at your touch

Stroll with me the garden through

Putting blush to the flowers there

So they may smile too

This vision I have never seen

But in persistent caresses in my mind

Which bring me back day after day

No ordinary moments since I met you

Oh! how I love the energy of this place

It flows through our bodies swirling

It radiates and maginfies our touch

With emotion unbound by words

To spite my ineptitude and guilt

It appears I behaved badly

I wish I were those smiling pearls

Making love with you madly

The night creatures longing chorus

Serenades me

Far off thunder stirs the breeze

The duvet slipped to the floor

Out of reach and pearls are not enough

To keep me warm

From nights cold blooded leach and

Sadly pearls don't have lips or eyes

To lament the miles that now estrange us

The magic, singing Serengeti

An oasis out of time is

Only different circumstance

A different style of rhyme

Diminished not with standing

You shed your skin

And let it lay... curling

To create yourself anew

Courageous action done in a fearful world

And done by very few

I'm so proud to say

I've known you

Though now we don't speak

Even if it was me that chose it this way

My eyes cast to the floor

This vision of you

I will always keep

Serene and smiling coyly