The Last Time

The last time

Make love to me my darling

Make love desperately 

For we will never know 

When the last time might be

Make love to me my darling

Give your heart and soul to me

For hearts can stop their beating

When the soul’s left absentee 

Make love to me my darling 

‘Till the ache of want rescinds

For desire will wain and disappear 

A mere whisper in the wind

Make love to me my darling 

Before passion’s disciplined 

When the fire of youth is raging

And there’s no thought of mortal sin

Make love to me my darling 

While the body’s firm and sleek 

Before the dust of old age

Leaves the brittle bones to creak

Make love to me my darling 

Before the zeal for love has peaked

And life is down to one more day

Faded memories all oblique

Make love to me my darling 

Heed love’s desperate chime

Where the past melds to the present 

And love’s rhythm becomes rhyme 

Make love to me my darling

As your world collides with mine

For worlds they come and worlds they go 

In future’s paradigm 

Let it be said the love we made

Was sweet and so sublime

For you made love… to me my darling

As if it were the last Time

John Snelling

11:09:22