Lend Me Your Love

Lend me your love for the space of an evening.
I want to borrow it for an Utopian hour.
You can have it back tomorrow.

I know your love is not given freely.
I know you cannot make your love last.
I know it's all make-believe.
So let's play pretend.

Lend me your love because order bores.
I need its wounding chaos to provoke adolescence.
You're too cold to miss it anyhow.

Lend me your love in my lonely youth.
Your heart is not nearly big enough for two.
Yet mine is not big enough for one.
So let me hold it awhile as the seconds tick by.
Let me pretend my heart is whole until the timer strikes.