Quicksilver

I've spent a lifetime
Just to be where you are  
But only hold you in moments  
Painting a picture  
Not wrought in oils but acrylics  
Faster drying  
For you're a changling  
Fleeting  
The evening wind's sighing  
 
Rainbows are caused by refraction  
Reflection  
Dispersion  
Kalidoscoping watercolor mists in their prisms  
And you  
You're incandescence  
Burning  
Dancing quicksilver  
Save when darkness takes you  
Colored with greys  
Waxing and waning  
Your phase of the moon  
Yet somehow  
The sun always rises  
Though sometimes your gone  
 
Do fireflies know that they're flickering light  
As they random weave their nightly flight  
Disappear  
Reappear  
They're gone but their not  
Sometimes I know you  
Sometimes your new  
A butterfly rising  
Shedding the old  
 
And what in love  
Ever makes sense  
Sometimes I don't even know where you are  
Only that somehow I'm going there too  
And its just like that  
Like when your here with me  
A dream to hold on to  
starlight on mist  
Sunshine on dew  
Remembrance  
A presence  
An unlooked for distance  
 
And I've spent a lifetime  
Just to be where you are