he gives me roses and i exclaim
smile, say the expected words!
midnight--
he wheezes past by my balcony.
in the moonlight i claim to be a new bess
waiting for my highwayman!!
he pretends that he owns me.
i pretend to be dominated.
(no deceptions here, we are educated idiots!)
in the frantic kisses we struggle:
--to recover the heaven we had once witnessed,
--that long ago memory of a fragrant evening.
-- of a virgin kiss on virgin lips.
and then all spent, we pant
and renew our false vows-
to love each other eternally
and i see a beautiful past in his wistful eyes
and he foresees
a passionless wasted future
so dull -- almost real!!
and so we cling on
carrying no doubts, only certainties
but ah!! what certainties!!
