Love’s Setting Sun

That first kiss

Sheer bliss

On full lips

She knew

It was true

Trust

In worlds yet seen

The truth of it

The very thought

Another

And so it began

Her taste of love

On her lips

And in an instant

An awakening

Like she was born

Passion was her furnace

Where flames

And fairies danced

Her knowing

Her beauty opened

A homecoming

A becoming

To a place she’d been before

A tender love

She told

Then her quiet soul

Turned quick

She abandoned thought

And feelings now in charge

Her confidence roared

Her body moved

To a different beat

Strong

And brave

A dance never seen

Her tattoos kissed and caressed

Her sweat licked

Each drop a gift

And on and on and on

And on she danced

A warrior queen

From an ancient place

And tribe

Returned

Reborn

For her

A new love to breathe

Branded

In her furnace

And so the sun began to set

In tiredness  just lay

Her couch to stay

The wind blew through

The twilight view

Her long hair

A mess of love and lust

But her eyes ablaze

Her touch

Her beauty

Ahh, her beauty

Short

And heavenly

A brief affair

Whose sun had somehow set