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Lovesong

He loved her and she loved him

His kisses ****** out her whole past and future or tried to

He had no other appetite

She bit him she gnawed him she ******

She wanted him complete inside her

Safe and Sure forever and ever

Their little cries fluttered into the curtains

 

Her eyes wanted nothing to get away

Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows

He gripped her hard so that life

Should not drag her from that moment

He wanted all future to cease

He wanted to topple with his arms round her

Or everlasting or whatever there was

Her embrace was an immense press

To print him into her bones

His smiles were the garrets of a fairy place

Where the real world would never come

Her smiles were spider bites

So he would lie still till she felt hungry

His word were occupying armies

Her laughs were an assasin's attempts

His looks were bullets daggers of revenge

Her glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets

His whispers were whips and jackboots

Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing

His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway

Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks

And their deep cries crawled over the floors

Like an animal dragging a great trap

His promises were the surgeon's gag

Her promises took the top off his skull

She would get a brooch made of it

His vows pulled out all her sinews

He showed her how to make a love-knot

At the back of her secret drawer

Their screams stuck in the wall

Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves

Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop

 

In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs

In their dreams their brains took each other hostage

 

In the morning they wore each other's face

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Ted Hughes
1930-1998 / Male / English
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