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I Once Wrote Some Poems (2005 Digital Remaster) - Peter Hammill

I once wrote poems

Stillness

And silence

Standing by rivers of

Reflected light

My thoughts were on being

Loved and yet unloved too

I surrendered to the warmth

Of the night

And now I feel like dying

And if the water were here

It would

Hold me close

I once wrote a poem

While walking on gravestones

As cobbles

Rain and tear lashed down my face

I then felt my whole world was fading

As memories jostled and fell into place

And now I feel like dying

And the pain of old fires still burns

I never wrote poems

When I bit my knuckles

And death started slipping into my mouth

But that was really a long time ago

And I'm not writing poems now

And I don't feel quite like dying

There is something deep inside me

Softly crying

And though I don't feel quite like dying

There is something deep inside me softly