Sappho's Welcome For Anaktoria Poem by Keith Shorrocks Johnson

So you return, my repentant beauty
And I deny my kisses and my lyre:
I will match no notes to your entreaty
Our songs long since consigned to fire.

No lyrics left for us my worthless maid
My heart once shaken now is still:
My lips no longer voice the love I vowed
As oft they did before you played me ill.

...

Such indifference cannot count for much
A fever blush now runs upon my cheek -
I hear a strain that longs for finger's touch
The music tells me you are mine to seek.

Eros plucks the petals from the flower
So come once more into my arms this hour
Let us segue desire's awoken power
Breached walls and heaven's broken tower.