Best Laid

I lit the faint flickering
candles

Raidiating soft ambient
light

Placed red wine by the warmth of the
fire

Stealing shadow and chill from the
night

I wanted to meld to your
heartbeat

To dissolve in your eminent
arms

Grant each desire you may
beckon

Submerge in your magical
charms

I hovered, washed, polished and
tided

Worried children and cats into
bed

Plumped up the sofa and
cushions

Placed aroma of musk bout your
head

I pampered and preened

Studied
and screened

Every inch of my moisturised
thighs

On warm skin I affected French
perfume

Adding evening storm to the sweep of my
eyes

I packed lunches, fed
dogs

Swathed satin on bed, ironed
togs

As well as the everyday
grind

There is nothing I haven't
perfected

Even our evening meal was
refined

You kissed and caressed me at
midnight

In the heat and the flame of the
fire

Scooped me in arms saturated in
charms

As each step of the stairs took us
higher

I fell to the yield of soft
satin

And awoke to fused eyeliner

Your snore, and wild hair

Christ
time is short and life's fleeting

But mostly it's
bloody unfair

lex ?
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