Solitary Ember

I catch an occasional glimpse of your face
it comes like sun beaming down through
the canopy of the dim forest
piercing my heart with beauty of you

there's a moment of strange pain
not the kind that tightens the fists
but a certain ache that's just enough
to let me know it still exists.

And some things just don't own reason
but yet I try to answer why
another evening bids farewell
dawn breaks, and still I cry.

What's left to do when love leaves
but to miss it and to remember
to search for glimpses in the routines
as if trying to see by a solitary ember.

Sooner or later, I'd imagine
love and tears run dry-
another season passes by
still I love, still I cry,
waiting nigh
for the solitary ember to die.