One Night Stand

Sleep on my love and do not wake, let me leave unseen

and let me carry for awhile this foolish old man’s dream.

One long night of tenderness, enfolded and entwined,

your sweet flesh against my own and I have lost my mind.

I love you, oh how  stupid, because I know  you see,

you’re nineteen and almost, thirty years too young for me.

Vulnerability forged the key, you sad - I lonely.

it awakened feelings and emotions - set them free.

Oh how I really want to shake you, wake you, take you.

False dreams I have of you, self delusion?  Yes it’s true.

Transformed by your passion into a young man once more,

I cannot face the journey back through that old man door.

I fear that should you wake and I looked into your eyes,

I would see the reflections of an old fool you’d despise.

It was I, you would think, not your sadness and the drink,

that made you cross the threshold at inhibitions brink.

You’d wish that our making love last night had never been.

So sleep on my love and do not wake, let me leave unseen.

                                                                              Tony Butler