Kit Kelen #404 - the damage is already done

404

the damage is already done

the damage is love

and that's how we're here

to touch

is just to be with

isn't a moon

to bless beside?

aren't the stars

to wish?

a voice is such

it's not what's said

dark in the well of dreams

we bide

all under words

at swim

and whiff of waking with

not a word

the healing's here

let me hold you

let me be held

love is the damage

that's how we're here

wonders are working

with us again

first of day brings to light

then you see the damage

isn't the world shone so?

trace a scar

where the highway went

the damage is already done

dreams had to be the healing

there's no stillness proof against

morning so the music plays

limbs are lithe to it

a reaching out, a simple stretch

how naked you will be then

love is the collateral

when once upon the writhing time

are there conditions?

something missing in my education

here and there winter got in

in summer we caught fire

the hour is passing where we dwell

how is it then we mean at all?

if time turned tail

ran up itself

but who does that?

the numbness is extremity

and all between the ears

crook in the neck

back wracked lying

under covers cuddles give

into shoulder snuggle

hush as in some antique song

you mustn't say my name

then I will have no century

no nation can be mine

let's for a moment

go without saying

the damage is already done

love is the damage we do