One Fine Night
by
D.E.Z. Butler
The haze was soft as feathers floating and,
then the night exploded into stars of dust as
my eyes unfolded their tears across your face, as
you lay close to me, but far from me, upon the ground,
the ground so hard and cold, yet scattered everywhere
the look of the haze and feathers
My scream was silent and unruffled as I stood staring
at your lifeless body. Not a whimper was near my throat,
you gone and me now looking tall next to you, at once,
but a minute ago, I to lay
I wondered how sweet and sexy your body was among
the leaves around you, as what now was, an outline of,
where once your body lay
They came quickly and removed you to somewhere far
from our love-locked spot of caresses and, only my few
tears were wetting now the spot, that in my thoughts still
felt warm, as my hand allowed my body to stoop and lay
it upon the new falling leaves, where once a minute it
seemed, ago, we were still smiling and touching
My hand now all alone and our love but a silent memory
of how we loved each other, a love lost now to the feathers
and dust of time as only the stars shine bright where once
we were there laying
This one fine night I lost you
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