Squid/Octopus

I wish that you would set me free forever

But the rings on my arms are too deeply burned.....

Oh no no no no I can't let you go

I can't let you go.....

I want to paint you love poems full of fire,

You who I do not know.

Now my mind is tested with love which

Twists and wavers from side to side and which

Some day soon you may see...

I want you to cascade

Through ten thousand rainbows with me

And dredge mountains from the sea:

You who I now begin to know.

But emotion is pent up inside,

Too scared of dying again to live

And meanwhile I must endure your

Red-copper hair screaming like a water-baby.

Black eyes stare from my ceiling...

You who I now truly know.

Now I cannot see too clearly

And already my trellis stands bare.

How can I break free of these overclinging arms

Which entwine and enfold me

And reach to the clear blue sea?

I want you to know, but how can I tell you?

I want you to see but my own eyes are blind.

The Octopus now enfolds me,

I know you too well....

I know you too well....

I know you too well....