Life, love- why did you leave?
Where are you, darling, I cannot find you but
For your faint shadowed whispers

I mistook you for my beating heart
For dark-black nights sprinkled with
The lights of a night-time city

I mistook you for throbbing music
For flashing lights and crushing heat
And things passed in dark rooms

I mistook you for my reflection
For dark-black eyes that speak stories
And a stranger-face with no innocence

I mistook you for a false Life
For a liar, a thief, a betrayer, a tyrant
A false god to we who are Life-lost flock

Like tender birds in dark-black night we
Fly to places where your traces linger
To only find faint shadowed whispers