Each time I look at your bewitching face,

Love songs sound inside my head

They do not issue at my lips

My off-key notes might drive you away.

But they stay there, inside me,

Warm, sweet and profound

Whenever I hold your hand

As we walk together,

The songs return,

Once more evading lips so

Eager to express my need for you.

Lyrics sweet, tunes gentle are consigned

To the music store hidden in my brain.

But when we lie, clinging

Intimately in breathless seclusion,

All the love songs ever written,

Flutter, as bright butterflies in my head,

As, you absorb from me

Every touch, caress and kiss

Returning each stroke and fondle,

With your usual sensuous fervour,

I am driven to extract the essence,

Of all those songs that play

In my head, and deep in my heart

And find genuine voice to say,

“I adore you, my love”