A Gypsy Vesper
© Copyright 1994 by J. Scott Iverson
All Rights Reserved

Day is done
Gone the sun
Evening beats a different drum
Day is done
Magic come
Dance beneath the Starry Dome.

When the shadows play upon the wall
Like the gypsy children in the Fall
Hear the evening rhythms calling
Answer one and all --
When the night is velvet-blue
Like some sailor's old tattoo
Then the Spirit beckons you
To dance and love to woo.

The stars are teasing
With a crescent moon
Her virtue doesn't
Stand a chance by June
You're blood is pounding loud enough
To make a vampire swoon

Come, my Darling, you and I
Make a wish and on it fly
Out of Time and right in Tempo
Planets swirling by --
See the lifetimes we have made
Living each one day-to-day
Will we ever find the way
To make this moment stay?

The earth is quaking
And the lava flows
And all around me
How your fire grows!
Laughing, panting, licking, kissing
Curl my gypsy toes

When the night is velvet-blue
Like some sailor's old tattoo
Then the Spirit beckons you
To dance and love to woo

Day is done
We are One
Meet in dreamland
Till the sun