Midnight Lamentation

When you and I go down

Breathless and cold,

Our faces both worn back

To earthly mould,

How lonely we shall be!

What shall we do,

You without me,

I without you?

We are most nearly born

Of one same kind;

We have the same delight,

The same true mind.

Must we then part, we part;

Is there no way

To keep a beating heart,

And light of day?

I cannot find a way

Through love and through;

I cannot reach beyond

Body, to you.

When you or I must go

Down evermore,

There'll be no more to say

- But a locked door.