That Trinket Most Treasured Poem by Beach Leanbh

My gaze holds steady as a quantity of stone
Unbreaking, unyielding from its course
My focus stilled, but mind has flown
To vital stillness my sinew enforced
A draught of thine lips my 'magination stirs
To feel thy breasts sigh and taste thy kiss
Brazen now by hazed memory's liqueurs
But stoically resolved in true love's tryst

How I yearn to rise from this calamitous dream
For we are cursed eternal - plagued as only lovers know
A true union eludes possibility, our fabric torn at the seam
Two fibers forever matching without a needle to sew
I ponder still if t'would be better matched
To have never exposed my chest undefended
If thy embrace so perfect is by agony too scratched
That I would prefer to have never known your taste so splendid

But I realize the fidelity of my sinner's ways
A fleeting moment was all I've earned
And that breath of time was not mine but ours
A treasured trinket forever praised
A passion felt and slowly burned
A flawless facet, hidden among the stars