No Regrets Poem by Martin Patrick McCarthy

I see your eyes flicker in the candlelight;
I become intoxicated with their charms.
I feel myself melting away within your arms,
As we lie together in the restless night.

I protest, 'Tis too good for me to be here!
I want love, but that's not what I will get! '
'Who needs love, ' she said. 'Have no regrets'
Her words touched my trembling lips and nibbled my ear.

We came together, like hand and glove
I felt your heart beating in mine.
It was at heaven's table that we were to dine
And I drank the flowing liquid of your love.

We had the night, but now we live in enmity,
Though I will always long for that past ecstasy.

(6 October 1994)