dead before I died

Down in the water
by the edge of the river
where time stands still,
.....if only forever.
...

When I was so much younger then,
when I was just a child,
I remember the words my mother said
on the night my mother died,
...

Foolish girl! Dam foolish heart!
thinking
that she's in love,
...

Halfway between
hell and heaven,
out of sight
from God and the devil,
...

As alone, as he will ever be
in his blanket fast asleep,
a baby dreams of the only face
that he will never see.
...

I took her home,

she died today
...

TELL ME!
sweet mother!
MOTHER OF MY LIFE!
...

And I shall

never know
...

In the condensation on my mirror,
I scribbled these words in haste,

for soon they'l disappear
...

Everything I am,

and all that I will be,
...

No one else! have I ever loved
as much as I loved you

No one else!
...

CAN YOU HEAR HIM! - from your frigid crypt,
your bed of hallowed ground!

Can you hear him! - when you rise tonight,
...

Where have all my teachers gone

a long, long time ago?
...

Sweetness, she asks for

and sweetness I'l give her,
...

Take me from my days of sorrow!
Save me!
from my nights.
...

There comes a time

after years gone by
...

Your death of life
has come today!
Heaven's relief
for your hell of pain!
...

She would have been 35 today,
the mother of my child!
Who will you be coming next for God?
Whose life will you decide?
...

He wont love you when your pretty
He doesn't care whats in your head,
He'l never love you when your young,
but he'l love when your dead.
...

I've written every word
I'l ever write,
all the verse
that will ever rhyme,
...