My damages
every poem we've ever touched together
and many more we've touched apart,
every word we've spoken to each other
with our two tongues, paintings, sculptures, works of art
including those we may not yet have seen,
music without words and songs with lyrics,
pianos, Oh and harps, and violins,
several landscapes, lakes, mountains and rivers,
a handful of major cities, a village or two …
and particularly the sky, you took away the sky,
that was such an underhand thing to do -
you’d already taken the moon away -
I suppose I might learn to live without the moon
but how can I face the rest of my days without you?
and many more we've touched apart,
every word we've spoken to each other
with our two tongues, paintings, sculptures, works of art
including those we may not yet have seen,
music without words and songs with lyrics,
pianos, Oh and harps, and violins,
several landscapes, lakes, mountains and rivers,
a handful of major cities, a village or two …
and particularly the sky, you took away the sky,
that was such an underhand thing to do -
you’d already taken the moon away -
I suppose I might learn to live without the moon
but how can I face the rest of my days without you?
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