A
newmusical
backgroundfor
this villanelle . Touch
I want to know the meaning
of touch if i touch you, you don't
say so.... why do you hold back so
much
of what you feel where there
is such possbility for where we
might go? Why do you hold back so
much
when our hands and thoughts
match as do our songs and their
echo I want to know the meaning
of touch,
want to slide off your shirt
and caution and look at you beside the
window why do you hold back so
much?
Tonight I am tired of the
watch, wary and distant, lying
low-- want to know the meaning of
touch...
Let me caress your wounds --
wound me if you
must burn me to ashes; melt me
like glass--
oh I want to know the meaning of touch Why must you hold back
so much?