I Left you There

We skipped across the moonlit lawn

Your porcelain hand in mine

I remember the day that we first met

Sends shivers down my spine

I watched you through the patchwork cloth

Your smile was my delight

I took the key beneath your mat

I stole you in the night

I bound your wrists with nylon rope

The kind that leaves a scar

I forced your hunched and crumpled form

Into my waiting car

We drove all night, we drove so far

We drove until the shore

I held your lovely supple neck

I made you whisper 'more'

I held you tight as youwould fight

I held you in the brine

I took you home so you could murmur

A delighted shallow whine

You sat in stoney silence dear

With a glassy vacant stare

I whispered in your china ear

We made our peace right there

I took your hands and feet apart

I washed you in the bath

I placed you on the mantelpiece

So you could always laugh

We skipped across the moonlit lawn

Your porcelain hand in mine

I left you on the garden bench

My sweet and cold divine