As I Used To Know Her - David McWilliams

don’t use the time to talk of shame

the lies you sell are not of her

but of another with her name

she wandered through my changing years

on all she touched she left her trace

and all the wonders of the day

where bowed in shame before her grace

I knew her in her Winter coat

wrapped against the biting cold

I knew her naked in the sun

she reached into my very soul

I still can taste her sweet perfume

imagination still it plays

her face lit with that crocked smile

a whisper of my young days

so do not taint me with your tongue

what’s truth to you is not for me

just turn your face and walk away

and leave me with my memories

and if you speak if her at all

don’t use the words that twist and stain

for I would know her only

as I used to know her then