Owen's Lament

Level your fretting. i won't be forgetting the flush of your face

When i lifted you level to me and a wattle tree framed your body.

In whispers welling with the dope of a new spring

You said "kill me a dynasty or our love won't mean a thing..."

A bullet for a diamond ring.

A favour promised

A promise delivered and more to you -

It's only a war i'll be back to your shore before you know it i'm gone,

Then i'll cover you body.

And if you have to go please go lightly,

Keep it to a foxtrot whether he's a fox or not.

Keep it cold, keep all your heat for me -

I'll be needing it for when i'm cold you see?

Let your children remind you of me

Whether by another or by the ghost in me in you -

There goes my baby.

I would think of you and a palmtree would cover your body.

You - in love and war we are bound by a law,

It goes to you and then to yours to recover my body.

She bound me up and hugged me

'o how the mother loves thee'

She covered my body

In a ragged flag and bloody -

O not on your life.