I Live I Die I Burn I Drown
I live, I die, I burn, I drown
I endure at once chill and cold
Life is at once too soft and too hard
I have sore troubles mingled with joys
Suddenly I laugh and at the same time cry
And in pleasure many a grief endure
My happiness wanes and yet it lasts unchanged
All at once I dry up and grow green
Thus I suffer love’s inconstancies
And when I think the pain is most intense
Without thinking, it is gone again.
Then when I feel my joys certain
And my hour of greatest delight arrived
I find my pain beginning all over once again.
by Louise Labe
©
A Special Love
How can I compare your beauty
to other faces?
You seduce me in the sunshine
unashamedly, knowing I cannot look away.
My soul cries out more, more,
and again I search your dark eyes
until I'm strapped in a trance like state.
You proceed to tease
my lips with your tongue delegating my mind
to your ocean, where I glide above the
surface gushing with exhilaration.
Your bouquet fills my face and body
projecting me to hovering heights
that have my heart
racing as if in a lover's embrace.
Yet, you free me
to further savour your endless delights,
till I cannot get enough,
and consume you like an army
of leaf ants would ravage to build their home.
Just as I can feel the slip into the next dimension,
a painless place free of blame,
I open my eyes and you sit there waiting.
Gee I love Mudcake.