Down Comes Love

Now I see the shadows on the wall And in my heart. I feel the savage loss Down I come, and with the dust, I fall Once I scarcely saw the bad at all And did not think of love and what it cost Now I see the shadows on the wall Down amid the weeds I find my call And mixed with dark green leaves I am compost As down I come, and to the dust, I fall Brilliance cannot last and life appals In between my cells comes sudden frost Oh, I feel the cracks within my walls We love between the lines with all we feel Then broken by the cold we join the lost Down we come, and into dust, we fall Must we live and what shall living cost? Is it ours to judge the present past? As I watch the shadows on the wall Down comes Love and holds me as I fall