Awfully grand

Ought not have sat

Too close to fall

Well within your magnetic field

And to get veins and nerves electrified.

A wandering pair of probing eyes

Got stuck at provocative projections;

That I shouldn’t have allowed,

Sure you felt the thrust,

But you feigned ignorance.

With outwardly calm

The sea looked up to see

The gray waning moon

Flushed with re-charged youthfulness

Conscious of the invisible curtain,

That stood raised between us,

Woven by warp and weft

Of cultural heritage and conjugal fidelity,

That we both respect much,

I heard your heart whisper,

"Let’s behave as better humans;

Restraint, platonic, Awfully Grand’."

(Image: Young couple dreaming of the future? Source: Wikimedia)