A Drink for Ariadne

She's a tall drink of water

And I'm a long sip of scotch

She's a hell of a lover

And I'm paradise lost

Her lips are cherry red and

Her dress is snow, fresh-fallen

And I'm a shade too dark for

The sunset on her skin

She's the mortar in my bones

That keeps me standing through the storm

She's the end of all I hoped

I had never borne

Her steps are hypnotic and

Her movements heaven incarnate

And I'm all left feet and

Poems clumsily recited

She's the foreword of a book

I wish I had wrote

She's the verse before the hook

In every song I've known

Her eyes are miles deep and

Her smile the sweetest poison

And I'm the salt of the sea and

The chaos of the open ocean

She's the fall of every man who'd touch her

And I can't turn my eyes away

She's the call of the siren to the sailor

And my ship is begging to break

Against her waves and rocky fate

Against the way she looks my way

Just long enough to say

An eternity awaits

She's a spark to the inferno

And I'm the treeline calling

She's a life lived at the brink

And I'm already falling.