Ruby Red

Ruby Red                       June 10, 2012

Here she comes

Like a bat out of hell,

Coming over toward me.

If I had to guess,

Well, I'd digress,

And just say,

"Well, I've been had."

And here I am,

Acting like I don't give a damn,

But God knows I really do.

And in the moment,

I think, "What about Lent?"

Guilty pleasures are

One of the deadly seven.

And is it wrong

To be guiltier than hell,

As I write down this poem for you?

Need I be embarrassed to say

I'd like to have my way

With that temptress

I like to call "Ruby Red"?

Well, Ruby Red, 

You're one luscious piece of meat.

You're one tasty little tart on the town.

And Ruby Red, Ruby Red,

So devilish, and I have bled

Because your sexy self stole my heart.

Unfortunately, you're a shooting star,

Got to make your rounds near and far.

Oh Ruby Red, how you've left me in tatters!

It's off to the races for more country matters!

You know I can't wait for her to return,

For each day I wait, the more I yearn.

Ruby Red is but a simple seductress about town,

And she always leaves me lying down.

But I know one thing - this I know,

And it's that my fantasies will continue to grow

Until Ruby Red returns from the hinterlands abroad

To tend to my every whim and lighten my rod....