That Flighty Temptress, Imagination

This week's Carry On Tuesday's prompt (#39) was taken from the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical Phantom of the Opera -- from the haunting song "The Music of the Night":

"Night-time sharpens, heightens sensation.
Darkness stirs and wakes imagination."

This poem came out *far* more sensual than any I have ever written. Don't be too shocked, k?

Muse of the Night
stirred by darkness,
sharpened by night,
Imagination wakes.

an elusive temptress--
demanding much,
frigid in response.

rarely,
sensations heightened,
gasping in pleasured waves,
she releases
image upon image
so freely
that mind and pen
can scarcely embrace all.

Copyright 2010 by Susanne Barrett