Charlatan

You are my veil. Discreet haven from the world. Unrevealed, I feel safe in you. Inhaling ecstasy as you hover me. Like chaste hands discovering. But do you deceive, wrapping in arms concealed? Are you covertly covering me, even from myself? Knelt in twilight prayer then indulged in debauchery. Pinned amid aqua horizon and jagged shadowing. Precious cloak of night, charmed charlatan you be-- both devout lover and adversary…

[Photo by Bellezza Caotica]