Fourteen long years she lies oh she lies oh 
And love as she lies she dreams in white stone 
Colonnade marbled and balcony empty 
A broken band brokenly marks broken time 
Fourteen years she dreams oh she dreams oh 
As dreamer she dreams on, as lover entwines 
Her limbs grow round his limbs, she drinks from a bottle 
She walks through the city she's lost and then found 
Fourteen long years, further back scattered 
She sits on some beach and reasons with him 
In the secret red moist heart, the most loved and most 
dark 
The flame shaft and fierce dart, the rose-leaf and moss-
part 
Spreadeagled like starfish, most pain and most fear 
Like flower of sea-grass, most fragile and harmless 
Most fiery and bloody, most childlike and wrinkled 
This starfish, this spider, most wretched and great 
''Do not cry for me; let me show you the path 
on which we neither come nor go'' 
She smiles at me lake-wide, wet-brown-eyed and dark-
skinned 
Some dark moon unmoved stalks through our loss 
''Do not spend this night with me; 
I shall make the fallen blind see'' 
This too another broken toy, from broken girl gift to 
broken boy 
I ask my sea-blue rushing mother: 
''Shall she hear the lions roar?''