"In this rain that lasts forever
   I embrace a loneliness like no other
   And live with it till it becomes my friend
   And cast this savage poem upon the waters.
 
   My love, I could not save you from your life
   Nor you from mine, but I promise you these lines
   Are as real as our names, as the pain we know
   Of our coming and going, our swimming, our drowning."