Covenant

Life is great Life is sweet

There are so many reasons To stop and stay awhile.

I would break Faust’s covenant with Mephistopheles Every moment I’m awake.

But if I should go down that infinitely long path before you, Then you should know I got my wish.

You never told me I love you.

Whenever I said I love,

You’d say yes or I know Or nothing.

I’d lick my wounds And spin another poem Around another world.

Yet the pain in your eyes When you thought you hurt me.

Your hand feeling for my hand When we walked together.

Our three sons.

Our one bed.

The sandwiches.

Are proof enough.

I don’t know what I’d do without you.

So if I go down that infinitely long path before you.

Then you should know I got my wish.