Mad desires

Oh how I've hankered for
you and you and then more
blood and sweat and tears just flow
around us and around we go
we long and cry and hope and fear
we never seem to be right here
now I stub out my cigarette
thinking of the day we met

     

   And so much seduces you

   sex for sale reduces you

   to parody and farce

   feelings cheap and sparse

   Mad desires

   frozen fires

   sad desires

   douse the fire


I'm drinking in a bar
I'm wondering where you are
all the women passing by
full of beauty so damn right
flickering like flame and fire
on the altars of desire
you never seem to be right here
but your memory's so dear


      refr.


1990