The Beauty

I will beguile you and take you on a journey

to places unknown and lose you ...

And if therefore you feel a part of you is always lost

Know it is because I took you long ago and lost you;

And therefore, too, only I can bring you back ...

If in the cosy normality of the quiet routine of weeks,

The days unfolding a pathway down into old age

Cobwebbed by dusty memories

You have forgotten Love;

The dappled sunlight of dreaming afternoons;

The hot and sultry nights, the beauty of the moment,

Let me remind you;

For I took you there so long ago and left you

And only I can bring you back.