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The First Time
(Barker)
the first time I laid eyes upon your beauty
exotic and beyond compare, the moonlight in your raven hair
surely as striking as the fair Bathsheba
high upon the rooftop where she bathed
the first time we made love was wine and roses
the second time that we made love we lay beneath the stars above
and said that if push came to shove tomorrow
we could walk away with hearts unscathed
soon I discovered
you were a gentle lover
I barely knew you
but I became addicted to you
the first time that we walked beside the ocean
you told me all about your life, how you had been an artist’s wife
and how it cut you like a knife to end it
you said we should leave all that in the past
one evening I spied you on the veranda
the music soft, the lights were dim, he was not like I’d pictured him
taller and a bit more trim and handsome
than you’d led me to believe once when I asked
with his persistence
he wore down your resistance
and in the moonlight
I saw him kiss you goodnight
the last time that we spoke you called to tell me
that you and he had made amends, and you were gonna try again
you ask if we could still be friends but surely
you knew I knew that could never be |
