For must love because I live

I'll paint a sun to warm your heart

knowing that we'll never part

I'll draw the years all passing by

So much to learn so much to try

I'll paint my mood in shadow blue

Paint my soul to be with you

I'll stretch your lips in shaded tones

Draw your mouth into my own

For who is there that lives and knows

The secret powers by which you grow

Were knowledge all, what were our needs

To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?

I'll paint the stars in the evening sky

Draw the light into your eyes

A touch of love, A touch of grace

to softly fall on your moonlight face

If questioning would make us wise

No eyes would ever gaze in eyes

If all our tales were made in speech

No mouths would wander each and each

Were spirits free from mortal mesh

And love not bound in hearts of flesh

No aching chests would yearn to meet

And find their ecstasy complete

I'll trace a hand to wipe your tears

And trace a look to calm your fears

A silhouette of dark and light

To hold each other.. oh so tight

Then seek not, sweet, the ifs and whys

I love you now, until I die

For must love because I live

And life in me is what you give..