If I could pluck out a melody
from the air of Heaven
place it on your skin
see goose bumps rising
to welcome it within
and take it through your pulsing veins
let it percolate through to your heart

Do you think you might forgive me
my soulful attempts at art

If I could only conjure up
a melody on ice
cold enough to freeze your soul

Would that be too cynical
or actually rather nice

If I built you up a tune so fine
never heard before
that mermaids sang and danced to

Would you drown yourself in my embrace
Could you ask for any more
 
I cannot say, my only Love
for I can do none of this
but I try one way or another
to entice just one sweet kiss
 
So I try to torture a poem
out of songs I could never sing

When our candle flame is flickering out
and the Dove of Peace is on the wing
will you merely forgive me
for the song I cannot sing 
or will you beckon me somewhere else
in a place I’m afraid to go
where you give me everything
and all is so and so