Her:
I struck a match, lit the candle
Shadows showed me my love
Warm, waiting, smiling
I paused to absorb
Feelings of love flooded me
Overwhelmed my meager nerves
Frozen in the spark in your eye,
bird to your snake I stood.
Then, bidden, I moved to you
Him:
The darkness was swept aside
as you flickered in matchlight
the flare subsided, to candle glow
my breath with it.
Matchlight flared, I gasped aloud
your beauty shone in the glare
Candle-glow shadows on your skin
my breath deepened in the warmth of it.