Sometimes Some Time Must Pass Before the Flesh

Music: Fugue in F Minor. By Dimitri Shostakovich.  Sequenced by J. Marques.

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Sometimes some time must pass before the flesh Can grow across the chasm of a wound. The rift must be protected by a silence That waits upon the healing touch of night. You and I have traded so much pain There came a time you closed maternal* doors. Your love could not so long sustain the power To hold humiliation in your arms. I know that I have disappointed you: I could not be the child that you wanted. But now I stand beside your ancient walls. Come meet me once again outside the gate. *"paternal" if for a father