Always

Moonlight came up from behind

to take me by surprise

and she said she would always love me, always

I remember then with the dead leaves

and autumn coming

whisper in through the door

Dream slips away again

through the cracks in the window

leaving only fragments

of rage, an old house

and never never will anything ever be the same again

Her hands familiar

and the smell of night old wine

in the mattress side glasses

whispered promises still in the air

like rotting ghosts and I've never loved you

though I prayed till I bled that I would

while you dreamt of coffee colored mornings

the horizon changing with the seasons

hearth fires

and the coming of winter

And it was never your fault she died

that night we couldn't touch

without crying

and with that washed everything away

like the rains that came that spring

leaving us so cold

you remember?

Frost came again this morning...

your skin so beautiful in the dark light

last night

and your scent is something soft

I will never know again

but making love couldn't

and I'm tired of praying

and I'm tired of bleeding

and moonlight came up from behind

and she said she would always love me,

always