Of Her

Someone else knocked on my ribs to see if I was home.

Just because I answered back didn’t mean I was there.

She bought pie last night I can't tell you what kind I never knew her favorite flavor I'm sure that changes I bet she ate it slowly, alone in her room Listening to Johnny Cash Her heart keeping time with "I Still Miss Someone" I'm just guessing I'll never know for sure Because I'm a million miles away An hour by car But I like to think about that To paint the picture I can't see At this enforced distance  

I don't know if it's better than nothing To know a little for a long time Because it hasn't been that long And right now it feels good Right now I don't need much detail Right now it's enough just to be there in my mind Watching her hair grow

A thought of me As poetry Trips from your lips And conquers me

So gifted, I By word and deed Of one who sees And knows my need

Your soft surrender My desire To strike our match That we catch fire

Your pearl well-hidden Long concealed It is my will To have revealed

To have you arch And ache until I penetrate Your soul to fill

From rising moon To dawning sun We two entwining To make one

'Til in our ruins We take sleep Denying death Our love to keep

Long have I with willful hand Kept distant from the fire’s glow To n’er embrace things most desired To know hellfire has made it so In distance where I found my solace To keep me from disturbing things Is now more prison than my shelter Where no one weeps but no one sings

Such yearning he had never known Robbed of sleep And in it’s place where faith had fled She gave belief

Her absence agony to endure No song, no face Only in death is found relief No memory, no trace

For love had come and with it pain At every parting Until is found that place where none Can stop their starting

He struggles for the word or deed To well convey His love into her hollows And so to stay

Came dawn, came light to melt the moon That shadowed them All that departed begs return Begin again

Once a love wont to describe By things unseen, undone From dreams they came, to dreams return ’Til they are one

Stars like holes in dark sky skin Such is how the light gets in And as they fall the wishes rise To fade all dreams unrealized This light of wishes, light of dreams That ‘til this night unlikely seemed My eyes denied and would not see Until reflected mine in thee I have been calm, l have been still No wind, no words to sway my will Where nothing gives and nothing takes Nothing to mend, for nothing breaks ’Til into my smooth midnight lake Your stone was cast and in its wake I am aroused from deepest sleep To penetrate your castle keep If this be madness let us rave ‘Til we are spent we shan’t be saved Let go all fear and banish past If dreaming let this be our last

At dark world's end where are found things lost, forgotten Too deep to sound Things not begun Things ended, stilled Asleep without one dream fulfilled

I shall not covet dying light Let go the day and seize this night 'Neath blanket black all is concealed ‘Til rising moon finds me revealed

I can pretend I can deceive Anyone but me The me that won’t fit The shoe that you wear So carelessly

Far away a faint exhale is swallowed by wilding wind that makes things long silent moan and sing songs best forgotten Walls   keep the storm at bay Still they shudder and groan in the night Echos of things once entwined Now spun apart

Watching you swim, I am a stone When you’re with him, are you alone Call it a love, call it a lie Tell it the truth, tell it goodbye

And I might die by my own hand so hold it tightly Because you know where it will go when I’m alone I’ll never know how you got so well-deep inside me   My heart is like a house You are within I am without     My ghost love

Something to hide, nothing to show Never to yes, never to know How soon is now, let one thing come true Heaven or hell, either will do

And I can’t be your friend when you invite me Because of where we go when we’re alone How long can I pretend not to be burning brightly When fire is all you know I cannot touch and go   My ghost love

The world around you spins around your world around me ends about the time my world without begins And buying time I cannot spend would give my life to be the one                                 to make your buttons come undone to glide your silken river skin Absolve the sin that I intend The sin that once begun cannot survive beneath the sun   Forgive the sin that I would not have end Forgive all things I’ll not begin Forgive me my untimely end Forgive me this             My ghost love

And I might die by my own hand so hold on tightly Because you know where I will go when I’m alone Let go the knife of memory or bury it inside me to forever haunt this house Forever haunt this house Forever My ghost love

Like a moth to a flame I was drawn Before I knew your name or what you were on I was a fool to believe That I could get by with a taste and then leave

It was bad It was bad It was bad, bad, bad curiosity

I needed to know but I couldn’t tell    If you were coming from heaven or going to hell Give me my sin and I will confess 'Cause no one knows when nothing shows And there is no witness

It was bad It was bad It was bad, bad, bad curiosity

This dark romance Hasn’t got a chance For the sun will rise      And with it my disguise Is soon revealed Asleep remain concealed   And if I die before I wake I pray the lord your heart to break

It was bad It was bad It was bad, bad, bad curiosity

You were the first and you were the last Lit up so slow and faded so damn fast You caught the Katy and left me here to jones With an empty bed and an empty head That I will fill with stones

It was bad It was bad It was bad, bad, bad curiosity