Rick Benjamin - Before Making Love They Compare Scars lyrics

[for Margaret] At forty-nine, he thinks he's got his share, holds up his right hand where, alone, he's got ten. She's traced the map of his forehead like a path that leads to some place she wants to go. & the year a knife entered his hip is a time toward which she would travel. What he wants just now is not to think about the blows his body has taken, & as if on cue she says, me, I've only got these two: the line beneath her navel where they lifted out twin sons, & the scar that is the same line deepened where their daughter rose up thirteen months later. You got me, he says, as their skins start to knit together a path toward longing, their bodies already lost to the places where love has left its indelible marks.