My soul sighs, and a quietness awakes
My mind, as if I filled my ears with cotton
Or smelt hot spice through coffee cakes
A bittersweetness long forgotten
It's my envy of your current lot
For you're content with swift rebound
Convincing me of the mistake
We foolishly too quick begot
Once dark words stopped us short of sound
And anger dragged us with a rake
O, let me drink to who we were
Warm as Terra's blazing core
The lilt of How do you do, sir
Our dance, our song, our soon-closed door
It read Do Not Disturb; I headed south
My tongue, so able, made you blush
Blinking up within your lock
Your hunger overcame my mouth
And up I slinked from valley lush
Night fading by our whisper-talk
Keep close, resolve to listen yet
What we 'neath sheets had always known
The fire, fever, feeling wet
There, we lived for every moan
Where tremors moved the earth beneath
Where youth grew purple, thick, and strong
Whyever would we want tomorrow
To kill the grinning of our teeth
Your beauty mirrored in my eyes, our song
I now too humbly borrow
Return! Return, and I will fly with you
To wheel our past with wine
That loosens collars, makes lying true
Dulls the eyes from heated brine
I'm with you now, this patient eve
As much as wishing will allow
The stars and moon bespeak your light
A pattern of angelic weave
The heavens temper fast my vow
To send you to my smiling sight
I feel the hours pass my feet
Your tresses hanging o'er your brow
Within the dark, with lips too sweet
A season of you teaches how
To bite the wild, edenic fruit
Gazing past our end of time
The stalks renew our petalled palace
A spring of steps to change our suit
Away from spades to diamonds prime
Upon our silver marriage chalice
Darling, I listen, and many a time
Have I longed to erase what broke us in half
The names we abused to create our crime
Would that I could lose them in your quiet laugh
Now, I too often reflectively sigh
For a heart that bounced just out of my reach
You're ecstatic; I'm stuck
With this memory, and try
To crest over your rock-floored beach
My sorrow is all that I will shuck
You were born to sing life
Into my hungry veins
I hear you halt strife
Your melody banes
All sadness from paths that we walked long before
The pain and the grief
Washed away by that note
A magic my heart cannot ever ignore
You became the thief
That has kept me afloat
I float here alone
In a memory gone
Cheated and thrown
From the raft we were on
Farewell to the ballad
That we sang united
Echoing inside my chest
Though my face may seem pallid
It turns now, alighted
And quietness shouts back in jest
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