Ponderings
by Thomas Vaughan
Where to begin? How can I ever start
to couch this love that trandescends desire ;
That enters every corner of my heart
and fills my world with incandescent fire.
An acquiescence of impassioned heat,
my body burns and magnifies the flame;
The blood that surges with each throbbing beat,
the mouth that only lives to speak your name.
Can passion’s pleasure be a fleeting dream
and ecstasy a measure of decay
Will this sweet torrent meld into a stream
That gently sifts love’s urgent needs away.
When finally, Life’s hungers have been spent
We may, replete, lie quiet and content.