1. I ALMOST LOVED YOU

Across her body I fled.
"You never knew" she said.
All me listened, and listen still.
"All things betray you – and I will".

And in her hand sat my hand.
Cold the sun and waters ran.
As the deep called me up I named her as my love.

I wandered half the night to cast a secret ring in fire.
We’d been lovers only a short time.
Yet I stand, pretty in your mouth.
You and the night slip by.
You are incomplete without me.
You were made great.
How men left you. A dying star.
I almost loved you