INNOCENT SMILE

Lady with the child’s innocent smile
Temptingly chaste as the newborn baby
Meant perhaps to linger only awhile
Fated forever in the memory.

Heart forged in passion seared in parting pain
Unable to turn the spirits bitter
Intoxicating as vintage champagne
The curve of her mouth turns even sweeter.

Honey starved bees most sought after prey
Partly opened lips of sweetest reward
While the mute laughter that reaches her eyes
Reflect the lover’s ecstatic regard.

Awash in the joy of those gleaming beams
Illumines the day with beautiful dreams.