Autumn Longing For Love Spring May Know by Vicente Reyes

Autumn Longing For Love Spring May Know

Come be a symphony of magical moments in the chocolate nights of passion's season,

Let your smiles ignite our reveries in the wee hours and let the light of love blaze high.

Let us leave behind the bitter wine of yesterday's grapes of wrath in our time together,

There are no memories that taste sweeter than your kiss when you linger near.

I want to feel the warm soft spell of your playful hair entwined in my senses,

I want to share with you thoughts of beauty seen like in a genie's dream,

Where the whispered looks of your gentle eyes are my command,

When two are one and love itself is a simple world to understand.

I imagine you in your solitude standing like a portrait on the horizon,

With your tears of a moment etched like rain on my palette.

Take one step toward me and let me spotlight your melodic laughter once again.

In your mornings let the dancing mists of our dreams embrace you.

Let me love you with kisses that in the evening will again awaken you.

In the coldest winds there are no powers such as could keep me from you.

I wander in the asphalt jungle craving the moment I will feel you close.

Like the eagle longing for his high shelter I seek the pleasure of your company,

You whose inner soul's light is so akin to mine that from the first word

Something filled us with such longing that in spirit we touched each other.

Now time has washed away the colours of the skies but my sunny heart yet

Feels the rhythm of the passion born when we first met, yes I remember

The future that when on this scroll I scrawled these winged words was not,

But that by the time the clock has seen our tears and joys you'll know,

And I will treasure your first glow even though a lifetime's seasons pass.

Come then take my hand I am only a man but my passion touches heaven,

In my desire for you I would journey to Mt. Olympus even as the morning star

We call Venus is a sapphire light in the night cold night when you are far.

I imagine your caress in the midnight loneliness and my ear longs to hear

Your words in the deepest places of what kaleidoscopic secrets we may share.

Let my presence be a palace for your beauty, let me like a sculptor trace

Your blessed figure and let my hands like my eyes touch you as when

The winds in Spring caress your smiling face, my lover, my friend, come

Share another hour with me and pour another cup of ecstasy for the night

Is only followed by day and we shall delight ever in our special place(s)

Though the years sprinkle pretty flowered memories that we pluck again.

Yes, the instant may happen when you ponder what maybe was, is, or could be,

But all I need right now is for you to come be with me.

Vicente Reyes

Autumn 1997

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Original English & Spanish translation by Vicente Reyes, all others by SYSTRAN

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