Grant Peeples: Music
Liliana
(Grant Peeples)
Grant Peeples
song about a Panamanian living in Limon Costa Rica, running guns to the Sandanistas in Nicaragua
LILIANA
Liliana, has it been ten years?
Liliana, has it really been ten years?
Since that afternoon when we made love
In your apartment above that empty street
In the bed by the window, curtains twisting in the breeze
With your jewelry on the dresser and the flowers in the vases
And the bookcases stacked high and tight with bold ideas
Liliana, has it really been ten years?
Liliana, it’s as real as yesterday
Liliana, you’re more real than yesterday
With your photographs of Che Guevarra and Camus
And your self-portrait nude above the mantel
Silver rings around your toes, and your eyes like poems
And your deep ocean kisses and your off-shore whispers
And a hunger I’ll remember till I breathe my last, I fear
Liliana, I can see you now so clear?