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 Tried to gain my footing on the stairs 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 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, oh 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 I said never Never, yet in love