For What As Easy

By W H Auden

For what as easy

For what thought small,

For what is well

Because between,

To you simply

From me I mean.

Who goes with who

The bedclothes say,

As I and you

Go kissed away,

The data given,

The senses even.

Fate is not late,

Nor the speech rewritten,

Nor one word forgotten,

Said at the start

About heart,

By heart, for heart.