i terribly fell in love with a dead man

" Fire runs through my body with the pain of loving you.
Pain runs through my body with the fires of my love for you.
Pain like a boil about to burst my love for you,
Consumed by fire with my love for you,
I remember what you said to me.
I am thinking of your love for me.
I am torn by your love for me.
Pain and more pain.
Where are you going with my love?
I am told you will go from here.
I am told that you will leave me here.
My body is numb with grief.
Remember what I said, my love.
Goodbye, my love, goodbye"

- Told by an anonymous Kwakutl Indian of southern Alaska.