Crisis After Crisis - The Verlaines

The party went fine 'til you arrived

Felt a compulsion to leave my senses

I saw in your eyes, you thought that you were the great reason why

The moment you came you thought you’d butchered my evening

Well if I get drunk, well that’s all right

If I sleep on the floor all night

Don’t think that you’re the great reason why I’ve got my guts in a vice

Save your sympathetic gloats

I ain’t chain-smoking or drinking your toast

You ain’t the one that’s hurting me most, it’s me that’s all

First time I saw you in that cluttered room

I couldn’t have run for the world, oooooh

But don’t you see it was more than you and me Something else was on trial to be purged

Well if something could die in an afternoon

Anything else was eventually doomed —

Just a question of just how soon it concluded

Not trying to make you feel mean

Not wearing my heart on my sleeve

Just trying to make you see what wasn’t and what is Girls I’ve written poetry for before cease to exist

Your eyes just bleed before the sun

Love’s slashed her wrists

So I write of a girl from who knows where

With dark brown skin and Dürer's hair

Who knows what love, what hate, what lies beyond those saddened, violet eyes?