FALLING FOR A SHADOW

Curvaceous shadow

Draws me ever near

To the woman I want to know

And to the image I’d like to clear.

Silken silhouette

Is a promise yet unseen

I hope it’s the young woman

Who’s spent a lifetime in my dreams.

Sharpened image

Lies gently still before me

But if I caress her she’s gone

And not a trace of her I’ll see.

Sleeping eclipse 

Awakened by the sun

I’d like to hold her in a moonbeam

And kiss her before the morning comes.