unrequited (a poem in four parts)

day -
goodnight sweet day no sad lament this piper plays
there is no shame to be outshone by dreams
no brightest sun or summer scent outshone her moonbeam glow
now stealing through the starlit night to lie awhile to ease to soothe
no sadness felt as day slips by
his lover has returned

night -
the beams as cast from her sweet face paint patterns on his skin
four billion years to seek him out now quietly enter in
and he alone can feel the heat celestial beams impart
and now he feels
but how he hurts
as still she breaks his heart

dawn -
dayspring broke into the room
light breaking into the darkness
a renewal a reminisce when we were young
so many years ago
I only wish you could see you the way I do
undiminished. light breaking into the darkness

end -
I hear the wind. it unsettles me. at the bottom of the garden the trees are bending.
I can’t see them. I hear them screaming.
3am. I’m on the edge of my bed wide awake naked
shutters open head-in-hands the southern wind across my skin. I’m listening - hard.
it was a year ago when I spoke with you last. I know you’ve gone but I don’t know why.
it was your choice - this punishing loneliness. just like before.

epitaph –

and at the end - when I’m done
could you really say you understood
just how much I loved you.

unrequited (a poem in four parts)

where you were