MY DEMON LOVER

(after "Kubla Khan," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Where will we meet when we close our eyes?

Poppies in the land where summer dies.

Lead me to eternal paradise,

Sunny skies above your caves of ice!

Dream again with me, my demon lover!

Hover unlike any other,

An oasis remedy mistaken--

Into deeper desert taken.

Heaven beckons from the bed you lend,

From your river subterranean.

Tell me, what kind of thirst is this

Like I've fallen in some abyss?

Sun is waking over some high rise,

My heart's breaking as we say goodbye.

Pull the curtains, and away we'll climb

Into ecstasy another time.

Dream again with me, my demon lover!

Hover unlike any other,

An oasis remedy mistaken--

Into deeper desert taken.