4am
Worried by love I woke alone at 4am
in the big bed that all afternoon
we'd played in, and thought of you
halfway across the sleeping town
lost to me among your own friends
and lovers, maybe... Leaping up
I tore the bed to bits and threw
your body-scent behind the door
and changed the sheets, thinking
O, not love again, and down the line
as sure as dawn, the end of love
and all that pain. The new sheets
smelt of Dreft and corner laundrette.
I missed your scent, I missed the sweat
and stains of our long afternoon,
I missed you, and lay till dawn
all sleepless with that living ache
you'd left me with, as keen to see you
as a teenager, yet as full of doom
as Lazarus being called to in his tomb.
in the big bed that all afternoon
we'd played in, and thought of you
halfway across the sleeping town
lost to me among your own friends
and lovers, maybe... Leaping up
I tore the bed to bits and threw
your body-scent behind the door
and changed the sheets, thinking
O, not love again, and down the line
as sure as dawn, the end of love
and all that pain. The new sheets
smelt of Dreft and corner laundrette.
I missed your scent, I missed the sweat
and stains of our long afternoon,
I missed you, and lay till dawn
all sleepless with that living ache
you'd left me with, as keen to see you
as a teenager, yet as full of doom
as Lazarus being called to in his tomb.
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