Selene - a poem by Chris Zachariou

The Moon and her Lover

I asked Selene

"Will you be my lover?"

She smiled and said
"Meet me by the river when dusk begins to fall"

I went down

to the river and watched her bathe

Selene was

the most beautiful girl I had ever seen

She opened her arms

and said "Come into the water lover"

I asked her

"But will you be my love?"

"Yes I will be your love"
Selene smiled and said

We met each night

by the river bank and we loved till dawn

but each night

I could see more shadows in her eyes

and by the eighth
and twentieth night she had vanished from my life