Learned Your Name

I wish I had

I wish I had

Learned your name

But I couldn't read

I couldn't speak

Ah nobody taught me

Met you when you were full of lemonade

You strode boldly

In bold clothes

Covered the fear

Spent four years inside you

Day upon day

You pushed colours and borders

Lit by my gaze

Oh the photograph

The last gasp on steps at the end

Just a tiny glance

All I ask

Amidst all this tension

You know a man visits

Every day

With barely a love of fear

He may love me

But I do not love him

Can I move to where you move

Dash down the stream

You threw the greed that I gave you

For all you gave me

You've demolished my heart

Whichever room it lived in

Oh I wish I had, I wish I had

I wish I had learned your name