The Ballad of Forever

I once knew a girl, my would-be wife,

Who did all she could but still changed my life

Till Europe did come, pregnant with strife

And gave birth to the murder of our children

She once moved my hand a little bit South,

And whispered “If you want, you can just take it off,”

Her endangered skin had never been so soft

I wish I’d died in the arms of February

Her absence had pushed me against the wall

Higher and farther so’d I soon fall

I expected the rest, since once you have it all

There’s nothing to do but to lose it

The blanket unraveled as we sat in the sand

Our voices so serious, the night turned so bland

I remember her lips as they touched my hand

Eternally gracious and loyal

The stutters grew loud as my face shattered wide

In the middle of heaven there was no place to hide

Then the clouds disappeared and thus I was denied

The chance to ever meet my one Savior

Not once, twice, but Infinity got hurt

I bled on the bed-sheets, my notebooks, her skirt

So I buried my letters in Oregonian dirt

And felt the future slipping

Then she dressed me up like a memory doll

Till I looked like her lover, glasses and all

But I'm aware of it now, it was only to stall

My elusive transformation into gone-ness

We salvaged whatever we could from the mud

But too many evenings had reeked of our blood

So Fate saw it fit to unleash the Flood

Which froze up all of our visions

It’s over, it’s empty, there’s nothing to see

The only thing left is her chastity

I suppose that now I can finally breathe

The thick summer air of desolation

Now the battles are over: the end has begun

She won them all; I was the younger one

I promise one day to tell my first-born son

About the Great Civil War of Forever