Selene Poem by Chris Zachariou

I asked Selene
'Will you be my lover? '

She smiled and said
'Meet me by the river when dusk begins to fall'

I went down
to the river and watched her bathe

Selene was
the most beautiful girl I had ever seen

She opened her arms
and said 'Come into the water lover'

I asked her
'But will you be my love? '

'Yes I will be your love'
Selene smiled and said

We met each night
by the river bank and we loved till dawn

but each night
I could see more shadows in her eyes

and by the eighth
and twentieth night she had vanished from my life