The Green Pajamas

Still Never Away


And if I loved you more than this
More than this touch, this vampire kiss
More than this heart that beats away
I couldn't say

For what have these jade walls come to find
Two different souls of matching mind
I might depart before the day
Still, never away

And when the robin is flying south
Your lips may find my ashen mouth
Your hazel eyes may find my face
Alone in its place

And so my ghost won't leave your side
The specter of love, his laughing bride
If only at twilight, not at day
Still, never away


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by Jeff Kelly
(c) 1999 St. Brigid Publishing BMI