What Is Love Beyond Loving? Poem by Mark Heathcote

What is love beyond loving?
What is darker than the light?
When you're a ship in a bottle sailing—where.
Oh, if only I, could answer all your whispery prayers wailing
Change your compass make it spin in my heart everywhere
Turn those agitated blues into still calm waters.
Oh, why do you shiver, asking where we all come from and belong?
I wish I could say to you now, I'm not afraid to die alone.
I'm like you a siren. Don't you hear my song crying for you every night and day?
I'm an atomic clock my hearts a boiling pot
I want to go naked in the basement with you
So, I can do it all again in heaven, with you.
What is love beyond all this endless loving?
What is darker than that light?
When you're a ship in a boat sailing—where.
Oh, I'm a Nashville girl, baby
So shut your mouth around my tongue and kiss me
I want to break every spring in this here bed
And wake the thunder-waves of lightning in your head.
Oh, I'm a Nashville girl, baby
What is love beyond loving?
What is darker than the light?
When you're a ship in a bottle sailing—where.
Oh, if only I, could answer all your whispery prayers wailing
Change your compass; make it spin in my heart everywhere.