If I had known that without you
my edges would snap together
as each drop of your poison oozed
from my heart; light as a feather
Is this freedom feels- alone
Without a sense of loneliness
The loss of something infernal
that fades the way painted doors do
I close this one: final, endless
My foundations are any stone
in a garden of loveliness
and Eden is not still the same
but butterfly leaves still flutter
Crunching battalion chorus
The sun in her gentleness, warm
is still draped around my shoulders
Stone angels- halos- aurora
Faces I know from memory
Impervious as time passes
the weathered but fearless watchers
A row of gentle smiles for me
Feathered protectors, eternal
Those who wait somewhere below us
You are fragile as the glasses
That shatter under candle flame
only to be scattered by rain
If their storms should carry you home
In lightning strikes you see better
Take a moment for all that you see
Never forget, and always know
that in another name or moon
they will never settle your bones
beneath the same singing grasses
Although seasons and people change
I breathe easier without you
