Bayou Brilliance

A beautiful bud emerging 
In a sultry southern sun
Coy and alluring 

With the brilliance of the sun

Like southern food of comfort 
She lets her beauty creep
With a spicy hot seduction 
She burned me hot and deep 

She came on slow to touch me
With a sudden voodoo spell 
Put my heart in prison 

Then sucked my soul to hell

Then spit me out to heaven

With a tender misty smile

She held me close in friendship

And I felt like heaven's child  

© Paul Viel 1999