Neither steel nor bullet, neither dagger nor clenched fist
Shall linger ever on at set of sun
Love — love eternal is the thing that shall persist
For what can fill the voids overlong missed?
And always only do what must be done?
Neither steel nor bullet, neither dagger nor clenched fist
If the galleon of mankind should pitch and list
Its deck beswamped, with corsairs overrun —
Love — love eternal is the thing that shall persist
Billions of blind, nude gorillas in the mist
Our pasts notched in the barrel of God's gun
Neither steel nor bullet, neither dagger nor clenched fist
When we, in far-flung futures, cease to exist
Our traces vanished, our things we prized made none
Love — love eternal is the thing that shall persist
As temporal ribbons in darkness twirl and twist
The only remnant left of us is one:
Neither steel nor bullet, neither dagger nor clenched fist
Love — love eternal is the thing that shall persist