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Paul Burkhart - Limited Adornment

from The Birdhouse Presents, vol​.​1: The Housewarming by The Birdhouse

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My left hand
rings out against the wine glass
Your reddish-hue
still burning upon the edge of yours.

A simple business meal
suddenly changes tone.

My hand receives
a gentle touch;
My ears receive
a simple proposition.

You want me to love you, and
I swear I do.
But not in the way you want.
The right to know me as one
is just for my bride alone-
the one whom I sealed upon my wrist

But I long for thee with a poet’s heart
but a poet’s words are never enough,
To express on paper, in verse or voice
just what’s going on inside.
So as a soldier will die for his nation alone
and a martyr for his cause.
So will a Lover give Himself
just for His Bride . . .

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from The Birdhouse Presents, vol​.​1: The Housewarming, released July 26, 2010
written and performed by Paul Burkhart

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