Cigarettes and a Marley CD
Are all she needs,
This Delta Queen
With her swayback,
Scornful, silky ways--
The roll of those hips;
The rhythm she sways
This sassy-frassy
Southern chick,
Saving memories
In a jar for beans
Hello's and Goodbye's
Like a runaway cat;
She's a whirlwind, a stormy
Saturday
Pepper on salt and Cheyenne spice
This in-and-out
Queen of the Delta.
I met you moments ago
In my tomb, my place of rest
And you took from me my peace
You took from me my solitude
You brought me into the sun.
Just seconds before now,
You smiled for the first time
Before learning how to frown
For a while we were two angels
One from Heaven, one from Hell.
Only minutes ago, I saw you
You were a bird before you met me
You saw me coming to clip your wings
And put you in a cage
Yet you let me love you, gently.
When you left me behind just now,
You really didn't, did you?
My sinner's heart refuses to believe
But when you came back to me,
It proved that you were banished by my hands.
An eternity ago
Waking with bells' tolling,
A wisp of morning smoke.
Her day begins simply,
Changing only when she wills it.
Bright shadowed eyes,
Cool steel in the night.
A rainbow on black silk
When the sun strikes her wings.
Nevermore the raven, nor
The robin's breast of blood.
Only smoke in hazy evenings
And her song of unknown sympathy.
A messenger from other worlds,
My friend, a silver-eyed crow.