Let the Love Be Free of Lust

Music: She's like the Swallow.
Sequenced by Barry Taylor.

Let the love be free of lust
And watch the marriage die.
Devils dance on days of dust
As desperate lovers lie. Yet how might lust survive the years
Of naked intimacy,
The thousand nights of talk and tears,
The flesh too tame to free? The answer lies in lovers' dreams
Made flesh in lovers' play,
Where each becomes the other's means -
White canvas, willing clay; A mutual acceptance of
A mutual desire
For lust, a generous act of love
That fuels the inner fire; Still themselves, still faithful to
A marriage of the heart,
Making old love ever new
With chaste and playful art.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.

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