Can you hear me?
I don't love anybody else
Keep you near me

Just like i try to keep myself near

All the givers

And all the rivers in the world
Cannot quench it
The arid desert that you

Bring to everyone you know

I see you counting lovers in the street

I see you kissing anybody's feet
You are a kitten caught up in a tree
I see you climb away


Tiny birdling
Scrambling for any scraggy tree

I am thinking
You make your nest where none can be
In the summer

The streets are waving in the heat
I am thinking about the water that you keep
In the corners of your mouth


Climb away


I see you counting lovers in the street
I see you licking anybody's feet
You are a kitten caught up in a tree

You are unreachable by me
I see you climb away