Nightswimming

I thought I would just take her home tonight,

For it has come to be a half passed three.

I thought I would just take her home this night,

For she has done some drinking, unlike me.

I thought I'd take her home and that is all,

Forgetting all the world and how she spins.

I thought I'd take her home, and then I'd fall,

Forsaking all the me's and all the sins.

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But I did not forget and let it go:

I took her home, just like I thought I would,

But spent the night bethinking my heart's flow–

The tossing sand, run low, I think it should.

My mind does not let go a world of hope.

Seems Time shall not yet tie me with that rope.