My Old Affliction
Two lovers - S1 and S2 as annotated below, - can neither escape each other nor love each other simultaneously.
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[Song (duet):]
S1: Here’s my old affliction, here’s my excavated pain -
We’re following each other in and out of love again,
Here’s the sombre landscape and the landmarks that I know,
From two and four and seven and eleven years ago.
Why are we allergic to companionship and calm?
Every time I throw you out you leave behind your charm,
Every time I conquer you I call my forces back,
The further I retreat from you the stronger your attack.
(Chorus S1+2) : My beloved comrade, my companion in tears
In the battles that we’ve waged against each other down the years
Forgive my desperation I’ll forgive you your disdain
We’re following each other in and out of love again.
S2: I’ve led you and I’ve followed you along this road before,
So much of it through wilderness or by the barren shore,
There were glades of tenderness, oases I recall,
But now they’re faded pictures on a half-forgotten wall.
The passion’s just compassion now, I’m trying to be kind,
The torture you inflicted once was ruthless and refined
But now you’re racked in turn I’m not the one to turn the screw,
For soon you’ll break away and I’ll come crawling after you
Chorus
S2: Season follows season and yet somehow we forget,
The autumn’s soft indifference, the winter’s cold regret,
And then one April evening the lodestar starts to glow,
Sweet summer consummation, round and round and round we go.
S1: And yet it seems our hemispheres can barely intersect,
An equinox or two of love’s the best we can expect,
I’m grateful for the hatred, it’s the hatred keeps me warm
When the fairground apparatus throws me back into the storm.
Chorus
© Peter Lastima 2019
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