Farewell to Love's sweet blade
and to teenage hearts that love forbade
you have cut me by the heart again
and bled me out from the largest vein
left parchment with ruby ink and quill
To sign away my name until
I find the words to leave a note
about
Loves gentle honey dagger
I never felt the slice
It was only when I was alone
did I know your heart was ice
And if there is love in my heart that will
whisper I love you and still
until I am within an inch of life
I dare bite down again on love's sweet knife
and taste loves tempered steel and measure
and ounce of love, a ton of pleasure