David Taylor - Quicksilver

Moonlight shining bright
In the night a silver light
Reflections in the river, quiet
Silver flowing liquid sight
Transforming ordinary water
Into a mercury metallic flow
Of something more dynamic
Subdued heavy silent
Moonlit romance heady
Fragrance, darkened silver
Not a sparkling radiance
Illicit feelings in silver luminance
Dark and deadly feelings
Drowning in emotions lent
With mercuric alchemy
From a moon of silver pence
Quickening our heartbeats
On the banks of a moonlit river
Of deadly flowing metal moonlight
For the night of our intent
With snowy silvered Owls
Staring on with discontent
Twas a night with folly spent
Twas a night of pure delight
In darkened silver’d moonlight
Until all our passions went
And drowned in the quicksilver
Of our dark intents.

David Taylor

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