Xmas Tide

Xmas tide, a time for familial gatherings, The golden chain of friendship …and companions Sweet on each other, parading arm in arm Together to share a feast and gift giving ...Nativity scenes, red, gold, green bells ringing Garlands, wreaths, and holly Holiday romance rekindles and swindles kisses under a mistletoe Lovers making love! …A lonely time for others She arrives solo, one link’s absence sears her heart yet another year Smiles seem forced they’ll think …Cry out the hosts, Drink up, plenty of champaign ! Chums come and go quickly Good to flatter one in a funk or ho-hum The dinner is served, everyone rejoices Mingles and reacquaint Toasts and jingles can’t take her gaze away True feelings are hidden Like a disconsolate widow, mournfully she yearns for him Not a soul to tell, nor a cherished confidant to share a secret or a private matter Of the sensuality of karma sutra wooing her gently Mesmerizing thoughts of a distant lover have taken her far from the celebration …His sultry eyes, savory lips Sleekly sinewed neck, and bulging biceps Quite an exquisite exhibition Into his warm embrace and into subservience Draped in satin, his fingertips tracing her curves duplicating guitar intonation on his gears, depressing down fretted notes Making sultry harmonic tunes Counting down at the twelfth fretboard Lusty lullabies erogenous, with more alibies, Keeps silent not to arouse suspicions of an affair's existence that shouldn’t be She counts down the twelve days of Xmas tide her yearning entails love is starved at Xmas tide~ he plays keep away