I tried to wash your presence away,
To let the water again make me pure.
But how to forgot I fear I know not
So the only thing of which I am sure
Is that yet you still remain.
I scratch at skin to tear your kisses away
But my fervor is in vain
Because yet you still remain.
I washed more than mere memories
Down the whirlpool and drain
But yet you still remain.
As it nears midnight my deluge suffocates
And by this unearthly pain
I know that you remain.
But the inside is where the raw is deep
Where I remain tainted and not whole.
Where your sweet whispers still echo
As they turn to tongues that scratch my soul.
It is a love I cannot contain:
That is where you remain.
