Elizabeth Taylor




CANDLE FLAMES


In the darkening hours
Candle flames dancing
in a melody of love
Sweet memories of long
ago
And love among the
flickering shadows
Of a winter's evening
Music drifting through
the corridors
Into our lives, among
the passionate
embraces of a furtive
reckoning
A love, clandestine
and evocative
A meeting of lost souls
in the shadows
Silent looks piercing
the dark
And dazzling diamonds
glittering in your
beautiful gaze
Succumbing to this love
we drank of the nectar
of illicit kisses
And loved frantically
Candle flames serenading
our togetherness

~~ Michael David Coffey