If I Asked

If I asked you softly

would you hold me close? 

Would you kiss me through

the night, then let me go 

come the break of dawn?



                                          If I begged you sweetly

                                          would you touch my body? 

                                          Would you send all my 

                                          senses soaring and still

                                          forget me in the morning? 



                                                                                    If I told you gently 

                                                                                    would you understand, 

                                                                                    that you could love me  

                                                                                    only for the night, 

                                                                                    then let me go again.