Ave Maria - Rowland S. Howard

The rain fell on this street of grey

The steeple, lightning rod, the cross

The words, the vow, the ring, the kiss

Someone sang Ave Maria

My sweetest girl, my dangeress

Broke the window of my chest

My heart shot far from this world

'til it slowly came to rest

Inside the strangeness of her breast

My danger girl, my tigeress

History led her to me Each footstep cut in memory

Clad in a dress of silver-grey

She walked into our wedding day

My sweetest girl, my dangeress

Broke the window of my chest

My heart shot far from this world

Until it slowly came to rest

Inside the strangeness of her breast

My dangerous girl, my tigeress

And through the daily devastation

We are but in each other’s wake

And in the coldness of the station

We board the train all lovers take

But when I try to talk to her

I don’t speak that language anymore

For though my crimes remain unnamed

All my treasons, all my shames

Later you would rightly say

«We didn’t dance upon our wedding day»