Beneath a Moonless Sky

Once there was a night beneath a moonless sky

Too dark to see a thing, too dark to even try

I stole to your side, tormented by my choice

I couldn't see your face, yet trembled at your voice

And I touched you (and I felt you)

And I heard those ravishing refrains

The music of the pulse

The singing in your veins

And I held you (and I touched you)

And embraced you (and I felt you)

And with every breath and every sigh

I felt no longer scared

I felt no longer shy

At last our feelings bared

Beneath a moonless sky

And blind in the dark, as soul gazed into soul

I looked into your heart and saw you pure and whole

Cloaked under the night with nothing to suppress

A woman and a man, no more, and yet, no less

And I kissed you (and caressed you)

And the world around us fell away

We said things in the dark

We never dared to say

And I caught you (and I kissed you)

And I took you (and I begged you)

With a need too urgent to deny

And nothing mattered then

Except for you and I

Again and then again

Beneath a moonless sky

And when it was done before the sun could rise

Ashamed of what I was, afraid to see your eyes

I stood while you slept and whispered a goodbye

And slipped into the dark beneath a moonless sky

And I loved you (yes, I loved you)

I'd have followed anywhere you led

I woke to swear my love

And found you gone instead

And I loved you (how I loved you)

And I left you (and I loved you)

And I had to, both of us knew why (we both knew why)

And yet I won't regret

From now until I die

The night I can't forget

Beneath a moonless sky

And now

How can you talk of now?

For us, there is no now