I’VE GOT YOUR PICTURE

HE: I’ve got your picture

It’s all I’ve got

And all I’ve got is remembering

Where I’m not

You’re in that sunhat

I can hardly see

Your face in the shade but I think

You’re smiling at me.

SHE: I’ve got your picture

It’s all I’ve got

And all I’ve got is remembering

Where I’m not

In your black T-shirt

You look so wise

The flash made you blink but who

Could forget your eyes?

SHE: I took only one shot of only you—

HE: I took only one shot of only you—

SHE and HE: And now we’re through.

HE: Why did we never ask some innocent

Passerby to take our picture arm-in-arm?

SHE: We meant to—

HE: Oh, there were so many things we meant, but

SHE and HE: I never meant to do you any harm.

SHE: I’ve got your picture

It’s in a drawer

I don’t let myself look at it

Any more

HE: No fingerprints,

It’s in a frame.

I wouldn’t let you

Touch it if you came—

SHE and HE: If you only came.

SHE: I’ve got your picture

I don’t know why

But I hope you stare at mine

And really cry.

HE: I’ve got your picture

It’s deaf and dumb

It never calls to tell me

Why you never come.

SHE: It never calls to say why you had to go

HE: I think that’s because—

SHE and HE: Because neither of us know.

HE: Hey, I was worth it—

SHE: And so was I—

HE: I’ve got your picture and—

SHE: I think I understand—

SHE and HE: I love it because it never

Says goodbye...