You Wrote Your Name upon Her Thigh

Music: 3-Part Invention. By J.S. Bach. Performed by John Sankey.

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You wrote your name upon her thigh And looked at me. I wondered why You hurt me so. What demon drew You on to be so not like you? Sometimes it seems you want to cause Me grief, as if to test the loss Of me, to see how much sweet pain You need to feel alive again. I love you, yet I fear a love In which my function is to prove Repeatedly you cannot lose The thing you want but cannot choose. I stay in hopes that you will see Someday you cannot hope to be Both fully loved and fully free, For love comes only mutually.