find me

maybe this time we'll find a moment in the sputtering nothings of careful courtship you, and me in the autumnal shadows alone and we alight

my dear, i've guarded too carefully been a watchman that i never cared to be to a man who's not much to guard in the slightest

who'd fall on his knees at the first chance and twirl you around in a dumb dance in the windwashed streets of these rich towns and laugh at all of them laughing

so speak the words if you can, if you know them whatever they happen to be have your hair cascade in rivulets tap your rings upon the table whisper sudden and needing with your eyes piercing mine for a truth

and tell me you know what I'm saying when I say that it's all very simple but the simple is proud and it's loyal and it's plenty enough for us all

and tell me you know what I'm doing when I'm singing aloud with the chorus and it's all of us now and we're joyous at the start of the end of the night

and if not this you can grant me take my hand and I'll walk you downtown and we'll find you safe to your bedroom and I'll stalk these streets the way back and may one day in lanes of grey find a lover who knows without asking