Youth is wasted Proving you are a man Seniority is wasted Lementing lost youth
Today is the last day I am going to do this to myself The last day I will hold on to any hope Today is the last day
For an instant I touched it Greatness was upon me I wonder Do you know it?
The two of them sat face to face by the banks of the narrow stream smoking cigarettes, throwing stone… and dismantling
I’ve lost it again The words were just there Right on the tip Of my mind Now they’ve descended
It didn’t happen all at once The stress of impact And the heat of friction Combined Has a natural result
I can’t help wondering Was that really you Could it have been so High If I could answer
To have kept you Would have cost me Nothing To have lost you
The cherry red tip of ash falls from her cigarette to make love with a dry autumn leaf and set the forest ablaze.
Too long trapped Hopeless and caged Owned and enraged I saw a way out Extinguished my apathy
I didn’t know what it was like to… then you showed me what it was lik… I didn’t know what it was like to… Then you came along and accepted m… I didn’t know I could feel so dee…
Too many times you told me Too many times “if I had known” Too many times “ I wouldn’t do it… Too many times “ I fell too far s… Too many times I never measured u…
In the street. Pensive glares pregnant with meaning. Imagined Memories. Greetings between Former lovers wrenched
I can no longer trust my mind not to betray me, and devour me To bury me with thoughts of insecu… Was it love was it something else
I never told you a lie I was honest from the start You knew about my wife You knew who I was You accepted the facts