Requiem on Water

Slow, we paddle through the lake
Straight to the very center of the darkest water
Where we can embrace the shadows on the surface,
The eyes that look up lifeless from our twins below.

And though your arms and legs are under
Love will be the echo in your ears
When all is lost and plunder,
My love will be there still.
 [bad word]  it's chilling to behold up close,
We stumble backwards laughing in our boats
Till the image sinks away to someplace far but certain,
land of mere suspension where someday we must go.

And though your arms and legs are under
Love will be the echo in your ears
When all is lost and plunder,
My love will be there still.

Though your arms and legs are under
Love will be the echo in your ears
When all is lost and plunder,
My love will be there still.