Half The Perfect World

Every night he'd come to me

I'd cook for him, I'd pour his tea

I was in my thirties then

Had made some money, lived with men

We'd lay us down to give and get

Beneath the white mosquito net

And since no counting had begun

We lived a thousand years in one

The candles burned, the moon went down

We polished hue the milky town

Transparent, weightless, luminous

Uncovering the two of us on that fundamental ground

Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound

And half the perfect world is found

The candles burned, the moon went down

Polished hill, the milky town

Transparent, weightless, luminous

Uncovering the two of us on that fundamental ground

Where loves unwilled, unleashed, unbound

And half the perfect world is found