Perfect smiles from perfect face
Polished aluminum and shining paint
Crystal glasses filled with vintage wine
Vaunted mansions with antiques fine
I wake, I stumble, I grasp and moan
I lose the path in ventures unknown
Amidst the darkness and tangled weeds
I call on death to rescue me
To exile me from life’s despairs
Endless torment and broken stairs
Then I detect a voice, I see a shape
I hear the note of exotic take
Potent engines, sculpted form
Music sonorous, music bold
Elaborate structures to me reveal
A female figure, the setting sun
Cloud filtered Luna that fortune’s won
A child’s laugh, an ocean’s shore
I feel the laughter and I want more
I see the world revolving in her eyes
It reminds me then why I’m alive
To chase the dream, to hunger more
To yearn for love and what I adore
To face the struggle, to defy it all
For one more shot to be enthralled
To go beyond all mortal care
To lay with beauty in temples bare
To stroke her locks and caress her flesh
Become two souls intermeshed
Roman Columns, ivory, stone and fire
On Persian carpets and never retire
Feast on meat and Pompeian vine
To feel alive would be so divine
Relieved from pain and idiot advice
I see the light amidst the pain
I crave her sustenance and seek to gain
Forever new, forever fine
Heroin hit and whisky shine
The South of France
The Chilean shore
The artist’s promise
Ghiberti’s door
Her promised love and the hint of more
I want to whisper, I want to soar
To want it all and enter time
The entire universe intertwined
With my story and my tale
Gasp of crowds that mythic tell
Airplane power and train defeat
My hate of tedium, my ignorant feet
To stretch beyond what I knew
To fortune’s glory or unknown tomb
With the music blasting in my mind
A millionaire symphony that’s always mine
The face of Venus, the taste of fame
The love of potential, the death of same
With the challenge won and the trial over
Now I rest on Aphrodite’s shoulder