There is not enough of your tenderness

Or your kisses, or your time

To fill the emptiness of years in purgatory

All that is good, sweet, unspoiled,

Seems little more than fantastical illusion

Swept bright across the grey canvas

Of endless days & nights wrapped coldly in alone

Love a celestial  thing that races

Across the skies of my heart like a comet

The orange white trail burns vivid but then becomes

But a memory as I stare into dark evenings

In the moments where the world is brightness

I want to steal each minute, each hour

Of this wonder, this unexpected beauty

As if I could capture the happiness within

To pull out when I am drowning again

In rivers of sadness that sweep away

Hopes and dreams and you

All I love fades away too quickly

So I treasure each time our skin touches

Each time our lips part to softly melt together

When our eyes meet & the world stops

So certain you’ll soon be gone to chase other dreams

As so often people think the grass is always greener

And the great wide open youngness of life calls

You out to feel free, to drink wildness straight  

To chase illusions safer than all that is real

& I fear tomorrow could be anything but mine