The Fence -

From the heart, again I felt beat

And the dawn—your smile

O' I concede!

My revered standing in the expanse

To my surprise, a cantered stride

Is the proposal that you’d yearned for my embrace

And as we lock

And as we cite

You ached to tell me something

Such words merely bounced off

My naked ears did not understand

My chaos—controlled

But contorted by hearsay

O' I’m divided!

We might have made a treasure weaved in cloth

Of the kind that can’t be forgotten

Like a fire spreading far beyond the shore

Such a fierceness was our love

You told me all about your passions and your funny dreams

-A portrait that was painted in the dark

For I was lying on a bed of whispers in my sleep

And nothing that you said would stay affix

Many hours and days and weeks went by

I saw that I could not provide

Shall I stay by your side?

And as the moonlight shined into the sea

The reflection lied, the reflection lies!

How I could not spend my whole life like that!

How I would despair!

I tasted a sip of ambrosia

-Waking into divine

We might have made a treasure weaved in cloth

Of the kind that can’t be forgotten

Like a fire spreading far beyond the shore

Such a fierceness was our love

I would not believe such an absurd inception

Could test my honor and provoke my pride

And just when I’d fenced in my garden

The wild grew rampant for me

When through black, a fruit I was shown

-The seed for my incessant soil

O' I had to affirm!

I’d sail out before the high tide

I need to be the best again!

In inquisition for a betterment

I wound a rope that slowly thread my way down

I was a stitch away from lunacy

Splendidly bursting through the shell

If I had a choice, I’d surely stay

But like a curtain closing on the stage

Where else to go but back with the director?

Into the blue—into the sea

Into a frightened ocean!

I would find what would get us by

Ride the wings of desire through the fence!