1.
Look at me staring -
cautious, undaring,
waiting for life like a marionette.
Breathe me a licence
to rupture this silence:
'Romeo, reach for your Juliet!'
2.
As a vision of beauty,
entranced, I salute thee,
stripped of your clothes on a mental dais.
Your bosom caresses
those waterfall tresses,
silkily drooping around your face.
3.
How can I speak to thee,
up in your galaxy,
straining my roots in the reticent earth?
Love is a fantasy,
spiced with reality;
stoop Aphrodite, and savour its worth.
4.
Voluptuous temptress,
a siren and sorceress,
sprawling all over the path of fate;
if I were your rider,
black-widow spider,
would you propose to devour your mate?