Owen’s Lament

Level your fretting. I won't be forgetting the flush of your face
When I lifted you level to me and a wattle tree framed your body
In whispers welling with the dope of a new Spring
You said "Kill me a dynasty or our love won't mean a thing..."
A bullet for a diamond ring
A favour promised
A promise delivered and more to you -
It's only a war I'll be back to your shore before you know I'm gone
Then I'll cover you body
And if you have to go please go lightly
Keep it to a foxtrot whether he's a fox or not
Keep it cold, keep all your heat for me -
I'll be needing it for when I'm cold you see?
Let your children remind you of me
Whether by another or by the ghost in me in you -
There goes my baby
I would think of you and a palmtree would cover your body
You - in love and war we are bound by a law
It goes to you and then to yours to recover my body
She bound me up and hugged me
'O how the mother loves thee'
She covered my body
In a ragged flag and bloody -
O not on your life