For A Lost Lover Poem by Barry Middleton

your touch comforted me
like thunder and the rain
and took the world away
and with it all my pain

your kiss was an hypnotic
that put me in a trance
to guide me to a place
of stillness in the dance

your eyes were ever tender
like my desire for you
we found a loving oneness
when plainly we were two

you taught me to hold you
like a rose clings to a wall
till wall and rose are one
as nighttime shadows fall

you were rain and roses
a dream and yet too real
now you are empty night
and the silent loss I feel