Like blood in the water

Some stain expands forever

From my arm that gripped yours

Tell me what it felt like

Because none of us can remember

Tell me did we leave it at the bottom

I dreamt of love as a rose in blood

I dreamt of love as a war in vain

Sometimes I picture the gun in the window across the street

the clothes seem beaten,

still crumpled in the seats where we sat

You carry me into sleep, I sing back

Softly, sadly, steadily

Steel like

The cage surrounding the heart