Looking Backward And Lying Down Poem by RIC BASTASA

in this kind of love i look backward
to find you
so filled with desire and i lie down to
fulfill a promise
tonight
the stars watch on this agony
and the moon is filled with envy
on this new kind of love
between us
beyond them
in the books inside its pages written
long ago
by those who died and we were told
they must not be remembered

vampires, and wolves, and biting bats
moaning the nights through
and howling
for the denial

tonight between us we shall speak no word
the world takes a step forward
and reverses its orbit

we lead in this reversal
we tell them there is more to this
more, more, and as usual
insatiable.