(Making Love) In the Pit of Despair

I crawled through the caverns
to the pit of despair
and by luck I met a fair maiden
who asked "How do you fare?"

I said "I fare well"
with my jaw slightly agape,
I was bewitched by dark curls
and her pretty pale face.

"Why do you stare?"
She asked in mock pense
"Come sit over here,"
she said, and disarmed my defense.

I joined her by the brook,
though it was dark and was shadowed
with a will no longer my own-
I couldn't leave eve' harrowed.

They gazed back at mine-
those soft big black eyes,
probing my mind
whilst I was stuck m'smerized.

"You're so confused,"
she said, furrowing her eyebrows,
"Just let go of your views"
she whispered, and put her lips to my mouth.

It didn't make sense
It had to be insane
but my rational attempts
were exertions in vain.

The incomprehensible desires
emerged and o'erwhelmed me
as my lips locked with hers
and I pulled her against me.

"Ohhh..." she sighed
with unprecidented content
somehow this was right,
but still my mind fought against

what my heart just embraced
and pulled her still tighter
our tongues interlaced
our bodies filled with desire

And in a passionate frenzy
we'd cast aside clothes
made love voraciously
and fore'er damned our souls.

The heavens gasped at our actions
while we gasped within them
oblivious of stopping
until we'd completed.

And then our passions fulfilled
we lay together abreast
our hearts and souls thrilled
and our bodies at rest.

She placed her hand on mine
and whispered in my ear,
"I'll always be thines,
but it's time to go, dear."

So I dressed and I left
both 'wildered and 'plexed
but I'd been freed of despair
so I was 'nt depressed.


Copyright ©2002 Ashi Shadow (05/13/02, on Sonnet)