A Moment or Two

Upon your balcony

You see me

Tender evening’s intimacy

Embodies mercy

In a servant’s disguise you flee

Into me

These sad things

Killed our passion with love

A quelled candle in a sleeping tomb

Where flies one lost dove

For a moment or two

Our warring families

Write no treaties

Caressing in summer’s heat

Down our dark streets

Lovers have privacy

When the city sleeps

These sad things

Killed our passion with love

A quelled candle in a sleeping tomb

Where flies one lost dove

For a moment or two

Returned to your property

Because you have to be

An appointment with an apothecary

He charges a flat fee

There should be two moons above the sea

Like your eyes are twin suns to me

These sad things

Killed our passion with love

A quelled candle in a sleeping tomb

Where flies one lost dove

For a moment or two