Love is a dress you wear in the morning to dance in when nobody can see you It is a forgotten fable, the only true legend Love is the ringing in your ears that persists hours after you’ve gone to rest Love makes minstrels of men in cages Praise taken for genius Love is a double-exposed picture of superimposed desire Cyanide gone straight to single souls The loved speak a language untouched by most We the free, the kinetic word breakers and blind sea-makers Hold jealously the cards of our post and presumption The circean appeal of fidelity The pomegranate hung on wormwood bough The household gods of tradition Becoming the malefactor of the love we first wanted The truth is that love is the lorn gift of circumstance A mystery imposed on righteous fools Love is nothing that I could write in such dark and fixed ink