A Lament For My Suzanne

There's the odour of incense
 And I double in pain
 And I flick through the past
 As arrayed in my mind
 On a bed in a room
 That's locked on some hill
 I'm gripping her hand
 As she cries to the wall
 (Suzanne)
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 The years stumble away
 And the pain dissipates
 Suzanne's clad in blues
 With a mark in her hand
 The lines 'round her lips
 Are now scars in my mind
 Down at the quayside
 Through the sun's rising mists
 Suzanne drags me down
 All this world's in your mind
 Can salvation emerge
 From the heart of this dream?
 Where the horses run formless
 The sky cancels its stars
 Then the fumes of the incense
 Rise across the walls
 And she watches me sideways
 Like the world is on fire
 Between the beat of her heart
 And her gesture of fingers
 The twist of her hands
 As it beckons through me
 She smiles through my pain
 And my loss yet to come
 I wait on the platform
 For our lives to restart
 And I wanted to tell her
 How all my hearts felt
 But my words barb inside me
 And my lips cannot part
 From the twisting of smokes
 As we sit in her room
 To the sorrow I feel
 As I fall out of dreams
 Inexplicable sadness
 This gash that I feel
 Devoid of her moon
 And ripped of my suns
 If I knew at that joining
 If I knew at that parting
 If I knew at that second
 If I knew at that moment
 The candle wax melts
 And the water stops shining
 That which is started
 Is so easily falling
 From cathedrals of sand
 That the ocean laps away
 Sometimes I wake empty
 She floats through my symbols
 And I move as to hold her
 And
 Lament for my Suzanne
 I wait for you still
 Lament for my Suzanne
 I wait for you still
 Lament for my Suzanne
 (Suzanne has gone)