Maria, Maria, I still see you walking in town at night,
with those hips and those lips and those rollicking breasts all so fine.
But the woman you were, so broken and pure,
she will never return.
There were nights when my trembling hands descended upon you
like two black crows haunting a golden field.
But the way that you’ve been, so lovely and keen,
that is history now.
O Maria, I first saw you lying under that looming oak,
sinking a sweet little tooth into a peach.
And you said, “Hello friend, just one bite of this mends
the entire world.” So I ate and we spoke…
In my bed you once promised that love never dies,
and I turned my back on the wide world outside.
Now I howl at the moon at the sun at the skies
from the gutter of love to the tower of lies.
I loved you with soul and with heart and with mind and with belly,
even when later you came to shudder at me,
with my doubts and my wrath, like some unholy moth
circling our flame, growing tired and lame.
Until one night I waited and sweated and cursed and finally took to the streets,
and found you under the tree with another.
And no devil or hell could undo the spell
of drowning at sea that you cast upon me.
I left there, said nothing, returned to the void of the wide wild world
while his hands traversed those hips, those lips, those rollicking breasts.
But the way that she was, so lovely and lost,
lies in the past.
In my bed you once promised that love never dies,
And I turned my back on the wide world outside.
Now I howl at the moon at the sun at the skies
From the gutter of love to the tower of lies
My voice rattles and dies.
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