South Susan McKeown I close my eyese but I can't sleep - I'm going south The fruit that you gave me was too sweet for this mouth I tread softly in the dark for fear of waking old ghosts Wandering through streets I never thought I'd see again, much less go Run through those green fields Follow my heart You're my north and south, east and west Sun moon and stars you are I saw the dark and I saw the light but I couldn't feel Cheap little trinkets and coloured lights - it wasn't real I was drowning, I swallowed it down like a death inside O I lost my courage I lost my pride I'll make a bed 'neath the birch trees under the stars Some loves are made of foolish games, but not ours Some loves are hard stone upon stone, our love is the sea Pulling ebbing and flowing moving freely