Sep 2013
I peeked in and on her bed in gay profusion lying there.
Lovely ribbons,scarlet ribbons,scarlet ribbons for her hair.
Moonbeams pierced the silent night.
polished her brush bronze cheeks. the ghost of a smile
quivered her mouth.slowly her lips parted and she said a name . whispered.
still asleep in a dream.
(please lord let me go ahead when we part. What would my purpose be after)
I knew it just then that to live without her would be my hell and so
I laid awake savoring every minute the rise and fall of her chest.Burning
Burning her into my fiber .Laid quietly beside her .
Cursed my mortality.
Scarlet ribbons,lovely ribbons for her hair.
If I live to be one hundred.I will never know from where
Came those ribbons,scarlet ribbons.Scarlet ribbons for her hair.
Lovely ribbons,scarlet ribbons,Scarlet ribbons for her hair.
I will never know from where.
Lovely ribbons,scarlet ribbons,scarlet ribbons for her hair.
Moonbeams pierced the silent night.
polished her brush bronze cheeks. the ghost of a smile
quivered her mouth.slowly her lips parted and she said a name . whispered.
still asleep in a dream.
(please lord let me go ahead when we part. What would my purpose be after)
I knew it just then that to live without her would be my hell and so
I laid awake savoring every minute the rise and fall of her chest.Burning
Burning her into my fiber .Laid quietly beside her .
Cursed my mortality.
Scarlet ribbons,lovely ribbons for her hair.
If I live to be one hundred.I will never know from where
Came those ribbons,scarlet ribbons.Scarlet ribbons for her hair.
Lovely ribbons,scarlet ribbons,Scarlet ribbons for her hair.
I will never know from where.
The first two lines are the words from a song that I would hear on the radio as a boy.Usually at night as I sat on our front porch by the sea. It has haunted me. It still does. Harry Belafonte.
