Nothing can save me now

Once and again, when I give in

Once I am that time before

And again, when I love him

Grieving shadows, they don’t scare me

Fiery letters, crawl away

And no one comes to hear me

For what is good

That fools can say

I should walk alone now

I should find a limb

To lie my body over

Drive pain within this sin

And God would be the only

The one to take me down

For no other can warn me

& move such foolish sound

My heart is where our home is

In the windswept field of sun crowned animals

On the dock,  embraced in a summer’s end

Within the rolling moonlight down a clover hill

All of this always and never again

There is a drenching in attachment

Things that flew so sadly & adrift, settle

Or else succumb to rising brightness

A spring’s sudden death

Emerges like a faithful morning

He knows all you’ve lost

& gathers you up in pieces as you are

He calls it a pledge

You call it a bet

Either way – there is no returning