Naked
\nby cricketjeff on September 2, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
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She was naked when I left her in the bosom of the waves,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Now she’s naked in the dreams I’ll never lose.
\nOn the beach and looking seawards to the lover that she craves
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Sending hopes of happy endings on a cruise.
\nAnd the breakers break around her, bringing messages from me,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 How can a man be jealous of the sea?<\/p>\n
She was naked in the Sunset, as I saw her fade away,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 She’ll be naked in the dawn when I return.
\nAnd the sky will fill with gold dust on that single perfect day
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 On that moment I would give a life to earn.
\nUntil then the Sun will keep her, watch her closely from on high,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 How can a man be jealous of the sky?<\/p>\n
She was naked as she lay there, tousled hair spread on my bed,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 She’s still naked fast asleep inside my heart.
\nI am trapped in love forever, though the cage is in my head,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And for now we’re doomed to dream too far apart.
\nNow the Moon will watch her sleeping and she’ll bathe my love with light,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 How can a man be jealous of the night?<\/p>\n
She was naked as I kissed her and I promised not to die,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 She’ll be naked when I prove my promise true.
\nThough I’m far from where my heart is, in my dreams I’ll always fly
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 To the beach where there’s an extra special view.
\nI can never be downhearted, though each day’s a dreadful cost,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Any lover racked by jealousy is lost.<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nInspired by the painting shown above by William Adolphe Bouguereau, I do not
\nknow if my narrator is a sailor or off fighting in some dreadful war far
\nafield, I do not think it matters [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/
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Naked by cricketjeff on September 2, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/31.html] She was naked when I left her in the bosom of the waves, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Now she’s naked in the dreams I’ll never lose. On the beach and looking seawards to the lover that she craves \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Sending […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9730,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4738","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6769,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4738\/revisions\/6769"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}