Michael Burch Poet Verse

Step Into Starlight

Step Into Starlight
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Step into starlight,
lovely and wild,
lonely and longing,
a woman, a child . . .
 
Throw back drawn curtains,
enter the night,
dream of his kiss
as a comet ignites . . .
 
Then fall to your knees
in a wind-fumbled cloud
and shudder to hear
oak hocks groaning aloud.
 
Flee down the dark path
to where the snaking vine bends
and withers and writhes
as winter descends . . .
 
And learn that each season
ends one vanished day,
that each pregnant moon holds
no spent tides in its sway . . .
 
For, as suns seek horizons—
boys fall, men decline.
As the grape sags with longing,
remember—the wine!

Originally published by The Lyric

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