Flickering Flames

In a warm bath tub, you and me, bath salts,bubbles,perfumed water, naked together, knee to knee, trickles time, faster and faster! Touch of soft skin in aqua warm, passions aflame, forest fire, thunder, lightening, rumbles storm, lips on lips, bare chest, live wire! Skin to skin in timeless embrace, fingers tips trace contours of mind, heart wanders in unguided daze, where love can see but death is blind! All of oceans unmeasured depth, expanse of the limitless sky, Love can fill with a single breath, may be we live or we may die! Half lit forests with crescent moon, howl of wind shakes denuded trees, unseen danger lurk in sand dunes, undeterred we love, carnal peace. Lets live this moment, moments last, a few more moments until dawn, to be swept, buried in times past, loves farewell, before I am gone! Guns rattle on in distant night, abandoned lanes and broken homes, in a lost cause, no wrong, no right I journey soon to where death roams. “The night of passion and desire” poetry contest 5th placement sponsor Faraz Ajmal Written 07/09/2020