Our affair set amid hibiscus flares
Jasmine, crate myrtle blooms
Red wine, cigarettes, nature's perfume
Our affair paced by the ebbing of a swing
Seconds tick by crickets in the trees
Blinking stars, birds on wings
No music for dancing
So we dance to conversational charms
A candle's flicker, a kerosene lamp
That withered away in a breeze
Our affair didn't seek a commonality
Just filled Marie veranda, wall of magnolia leaves
If from this time, love we never shared
Ever more will we have our affair
We feign no flattery
Just chattering of days gone before
No commitment just the insistence
Tomorrow night we meet once more
Our affair, innocent as ordinary spring
Lifted us on bu*terfly wings
To our heavenly, earthbound lair
Here, this time, this place satisfied every care
Ever more will we share our affair