The Maw

Time’s maw is gaping wide
And her crystal arms are breaking off
Come with me! In the pale moonlight
And let us together lie forever.

Laugh with me for innocence
And for sterile beauty in your eyes
Let me in! Those lightened lips
Sing clearly through the modern noise

But run from me at the smile of dawn
I reflect the sun in rancid hues
I cannot trust you’d see the same
The fickle side of love remains

A million rills could fill but little
The sweet and total grasp of your embrace.
I’d scream it through the very earth,
And stand staring at the shaking hills.

Yet there is a pride that lingers close
That makes such feelings mine alone.