I LOVE YOU WITH MY EVERY BREATH
I love you with my every breath,I make you songs like thunder birds,Give you my life—you give me deathAnd stab me with your dreadful words.
You laid my head against your heartLast night, my lips upon your breastAnd now you say that we must partFor fear your heart should be oppressed:
You cannot go against the worldFor my sake only—thus your phrase,But I—God's beauty is unfurledIn your gold hair, and in your gaze
The wisdom of God’s bride—each soulThat shares his love, and yours and mine,Two lovers share your aureoleAnd one is mortal, one divine:
One came on earth that you might knowHis love for you—that you deny,Now you give me this equal blow:One died for you, and one will die.
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