I’ve been touched by love of many a shade

Fraternal maternal paternal connubial 

Carnal rapacious ethereal ludus ethos agape

Many a hue with tunes dulcet chaotic jovial

From unquenchable lust to gentlest passion

I’ve tasted them all down through the years 

I recall them all in quiet melancholic fashion

Among my tattered gardens of joy and tears

Yet in this misty turmultuous memory hall

She miraculously arrives to fan an embered

Coal left cooling too long yet not beyond recall

To steal my heart with joy unremembered