Prologue to Long Goodbye

It's a disappearing

Like watching someone you love slip down underwater and sink, sink, sink

And it's as if you slipped from my finger that last time

Like a ring from my finger

And you glinted and winked in the light as you drifted down, down, down

Yes, my sweet beloved

Like a ring sinking slowly to the bottom of the ocean

Slipping further and further away from me

All the days of our lives fall away from the light at the bottom

And the time, oh, the time that emerges between us as you slip down, down, down

Out of my grasp

And I can't see you any longer

The darkness, my sweetness

I've cried and cried, cried an ocean for you

But no tide will bring you back to me

No tide will wash you back, my sweet beloved

My nameless one

The light dies, the light dies

And you are gone