The Great Down Under--A Fantasy

The Great Down Under-A Fantasy

A lad of twenty-three years was I
  and she maid of thirty-five
For a summer in the Etruscan gardens
We'd both traveled far and then
Discovered where the flowers bloomed
Where we might lie embraced in ruins
She wore a woman's face and I a lad yet still
I taught her how to love in those green Etruscan hills
She was lithe and long, so fair
She stood taller, with curly kinky hair
I called her "my jewel of the Great Down Under"
And still she comes to mind when ever I hear thunder
Her greatest beauty was on the inside; there she met no match
She loved me more than any gal that I did ever catch
We spent the summer clasped as one
Went everywhere together
When the summer storms did break, we made  love naked underneath the weather
That turned the sun to warm dark rain
Our faces it did spatter
Still we made our measured love in tempo to the patter
As the lightning crashed and thunder roared
Our passion raged our heartbeats soared
Until the rain drops and the darkness quit
And the sun broke out to warm us a bit
Then arm in arm with bundled clothes
The door we closed behind us
The years have passed
The boats have left asunder
I've nothing to remind me of my darling lass
Except warm rain and thunder
Was it real the lightning that set us up in momentary splendor?
Why did she go, why did she leave?
Why did someone send her?
And call her back to the Great Down Under
My child in her womb
To the ancient forests to live her life and someday be entombed
Her pubic hair was coarse and scratched
Making love was painful
But how I'd trade all comfort for some word if she were able
In Paris many years had passed
A messenger strange came at last
To tell me that my son had lived
In case I ever wondered
Of what became of my sweet lass from the Great Down Under
Of her, she had just this to say
She would not speak another word
Except my lass still lived and me she loved
Why did she leave without a word and all these years so hide?
I begged an explanation
These words she did confide with measured   hesitation
"She lives with your child on a great green forested plantation
She came for just those few months as if a dove
To find herself and find your love
And you were all and more for her
There is no need to wonder
Of your lost love and child from the Great Down Under
There are secrets you need not know
There are rhymes you will not sow
And mysteries without their key
And doors still locked for eternity
You never knew with whom you slept
At this late date you still have wept
Now is the time you must forget
There is no need to wonder
Of your long lost love in the Great Down Under"
Tell me just another word?
Why, did she fly, my little bird?
"She is the Queen of an ancient nation
Who cannot accept male visitation
You child will rule when she is done
This is how the realm is run
Each queen must find a foreign male
From the far end of the sea she'll sail
And when the gravid deed is done
She returns back from where she'd come
To give birth in a sacred place
In this way they preserve the race
That is all that I can say about this realm so   far away"
I begged, cajoled, I offered wealth absurd
But she would not say another word
I clasped my hand to my brow
I don't know when, I don't know how
In that moment she disappeared
Gone forever this aberration weird
I fear l'll take this news to the grave
It is too late for me to save
A life that's loveless, a hole unfilled
I must recline I'm getting ill
I still ponder why I was chosen
  and how I did comply
I still wonder as I cry
What has become of my lost love
  from the Great Down Under?