A Flower Into The Night Poem by Eric Rhodes

I know, my love,
I am tested here in pleasure
like a drunkard in a wine cellar.
Wearing only my soft skin,
baptized by the light,
I enter into the palm forest,
an oasis with water
bubbling in pools,
like your love I feel
within me.
Away in every direction
the wind blows the sand
obscuring the horizon,
until it is one with the amber sky.
Breathe deeply and slowly
until the dust of the mind
settles and I curl into you
like a flower into the night.
For here, oh glorious one,
is where I must face
both pleasure and pain,
chained to this skeleton
which one day will
blow in the wind
like the sand around me.

(2009)