Never Yet in Love

Brought to life through ordinary organs
And all the same forsaken as the orphans
Too dense to hear the thunder or the clap
A spell to make one bold enough to laugh
I tried to gain my footing on the stairs
I stumbled on what never once was there
I knew not what I longed for or possessed
The obscurity of love’s enormous breath
Never, yet in love
Across a smeared unending night
Never, yet in love
Rang the viciousness of life
Never, yet in love
Through a mass of words I simply don’t remember
Though I know that I said never
Never, yet in love
In wealth I gazed the sculpted circulation
In need, a helping hand at every station
And the difference in the balance of our form
Was something secret, something darkly warm
Though I gave in to the whims of fatalism
As a vicious little brain-dead organism
My unearned love, a floret in the garden
From ordinary organs as I started
Are we always weak in our beginnings
Are we always blind to all our winnings
See not what we are but what we’ve shed
The living form a trade-off with the dead
Never, yet in love
Across a smeared unending night
Never, yet in love
Rang the viciousness of life
Never, yet in love
Through a mass of words I simply don’t remember
Though I know that I said never
Never, yet in love