At night I often feel
the stars reaching through my flesh
Their soft fingers of light
coiling around my heart
With a lovers embrace and the promise
that such love will outlast even
these endless sands that are my home
Your love has gone all through my body
like honey in water,
as a drug mixed into spices,
as water is mingled with wine
For the heavens are sending us
a love like a flame spreading through straw
and desire like the swoop of the falcon!
