Hummingbird

Your hands embraced fire  
As life left them.  
I wish I had left lavender  
On your pillow  
As you'd done for me  
Before the labyrinth.  
Before the aviary  
Where the doves  
Tied your neurons  
Into perfect little bows.  
Before they stole  
Your ability to pray.  
 
How can you be gone  
When you were  
Just dancing?