My Raven Lover Poem by Mark Heathcote

You said your hair was red
The ruby of the sun on lesser
Then all the stars that have shone.

'My raven lover', can you deliver
One golden radiant feather!
Fly with me like a phoenix forever.

My lips, hesitate on your's hypnotic
I'm heady with wine, intoxicated.
Asking-myself-harmonically will you be mine?
You kept me from the darkness
I wanted to rent and weep in repeatedly:
Now, I only bleed to crimson a flower.

Like a sand wasp trying its best
To shelter inside that heart of blown-glass
In that bower-of-her arms

Oh, I swear I could float
Feel the blood rushing to my head, my face
My soul hovered for a moment in ecstasy and grace.

'My raven lover', can you deliver
One golden radiant feather!
Fly with me like a phoenix forever.

Oh, I swear I could float
Be intoxicated by you forever.
Fly with me, my raven lover
Fly with me my raven lover forever.