Each time I look at your bewitching face,
Love songs sound inside my head
They do not issue at my lips
My off-key notes might drive you away.
But they stay there, inside me,
Warm, sweet and profound
Whenever I hold your hand
As we walk together,
The songs return,
Once more evading lips so
Eager to express my need for you.
Lyrics sweet, tunes gentle are consigned
To the music store hidden in my brain.
But when we lie, clinging
Intimately in breathless seclusion,
All the love songs ever written,
Flutter, as bright butterflies in my head,
As, you absorb from me
Every touch, caress and kiss
Returning each stroke and fondle,
With your usual sensuous fervour,
I am driven to extract the essence,
Of all those songs that play
In my head, and deep in my heart
And find genuine voice to say,
“I adore you, my love”
