Meditation On Goodbyes

 
When I held you
Closely

How were we to know
When the hungry-eyed stars
Would stop dancing in our eyes?

As I meditate
With my aloneness

Flowers decorate the entirety
Of my skin

Awakening each springtime moment
From the dizzying slumber of the ordinary

As the bountiful scents of geranium and lavender
Begin to quench the thirst of belonging

I ponder how poetry was the only way
You knew how to love

Building those burning forests of desire
Ever higher, ever higher

Yet never truly trusting in the benevolence
Of earthbound intentions

So I hold you in my thoughts delicately,
Knowing you needed to be free

Embracing the circle of wonder
A final time

And letting the answers
Drift away like smoke upon the horizon

When I held you
Closely

How were we to know
When the hungry-eyed stars
Would stop dancing in our eyes?