Time of danger

I always had an affinity

For dappled water

Chestnut hair and laughing eyes

And days when the sun breaks through

The safety barrier of the lies

Breathed like smoke between the sighs

Where you guard your inner stranger

In case you give too much

Perhaps more than wanted

Until the truth arrives and slams

You that once were heartless

In the lukewarm darkness

That you never name

And even the earthly sins that linger

Turn from pleasure into lack

After that time of danger

When you return to wander

And you never once look back

In your deepest memory

At least not in anger