Black, you are my enemyAnd I cannot get close to theeOur life is ruled by enmityAnd I can’t weaken thatThe only way that I can seeIs to hold you close to meTo love you for it’s meant to beI weaken your attackEverything was lucked and downyWhat was good was up from underUntil black, that awful tenderCame and popped my sense of wonderAll at once all eyes turned at himLeaving me an unwatched bodyAnd it sagged, my body’s rib cageOut from under ogler’s studyBlack was decomposing quicklyThis was found offensive to meHis disrespect for life’s proprietiesMade me scared he would destroy meBlack, you are my enemyAnd I cannot get close to theeOur life is ruled by enmityAnd I can’t weaken thatThe only way that I can seeIs to hold you close to meTo love you for it’s meant to beI weaken your attackSo I thought I’d try to cut himTry to force him ‘neath my levelThe only way to equal to himWould be hit him with a shovelBut to really rise above himThat would be the final evilSo instead I asked the suckerIf he’d care to see my roomsAnd as a friend and as a comradeAnd all the things that these impliedI made him leave what it was that he hadUsed to keep us unalliedBlack, you are my enemyAnd I cannot get close to theeOur life is ruled by enmityAnd I can’t weaken thatThe only way that I can seeIs to hold you close to meTo love you for it’s meant to beI weaken your attackNow black and I we are togetherFairly just inseparableAnd in the terriblest of weatherOur bonds are incorruptibleBlack, you are my enemyAnd I cannot get close to theeOur life is ruled by enmityAnd I can’t weaken thatThe only way that I can seeIs to hold you close to meTo love you for it’s meant to beI weaken your attack