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Dark FlameThe sweet Cajun waitress at some riverside saloonPassed me a pint spiked with powdered swampland shroomsAnd rowin’ home that night I got lost in a Cypress bogI paddled through a gumbo patch of mystic fogSaw a swamp shack on stilts where silver moonlight shoneWith haunted wind chimes of hoodoo charms and bayou bonesAnd a Cajun priestess with long legs all bronze n bareHer naked shoulders seemed to smolder because her black hairWas a dark flame burnin’ with desire’s coal Sendin’ fevered shivers through my soulNo lookin’ back, no lies and no blameJust the taste of love lit with dark flameShe pulled me through her door and I felt my will departCos her shining eyes cast a secret shadow on my heartShe slipped off a necklace of alligator teethRemoved her clothes revealing my oldest wish beneathThere’s reason and passion and there’s wrong from rightBut a only a foolish conscience lets the flesh decideShe blew through me like winter’s chill through tattered clothAnd my deepest dreams were crazy wings that led me like a mothTo a dark flame burnin’ with desire’s coalSendin’ fevered shivers through my soulNo lookin’ back, no lies and no blameJust the taste of love lit with dark flameI awoke on my boat and that pint was all but goneTo my east lay the butter top horizon of dawnI thought she was born from the mad dreams of bootleg ryeTill that moonlit street fair last week by the riversideAfter a veiled woman read my palm in a canvas boothIn my pants I found a pint with a jagged toothI drank it by the river and met that waitress in the mistFor it’s in dreams of forbidden things our true fortunes existIn a dark flame burnin’ with desire’s coalSendin’ fevered shivers through my soulNo lookin’ back, no lies and no blameJust the taste of love lit with dark flame©2007 Robert George