Loss

Be as it may
that all will end,
the hands of time move very quickly indeed
and I will lose you and you will lose me.
But before all this shall come to pass
I will immortalise us in verse,
so true to my word,
so true to my word.

A little angel that can cry no longer,
lest she trade wings for the beating heart of mortals
again that she sacrifice stone for flesh of love.
In some world we will be so very different
and in another we will be the same
but in all you have the wings
lifting you above the shade

If this darkness returns
come at once to my door
and shake me from my dreams
for lately they cannot be broken,
a memory on repeat like ancient film
that is seared in my mind and the lids of the eyes.

Should you fall you'll be caught
by better men than I
though I would drop the world in a heartbeat
that you'll have the extra second before pain,
if it is all I can do to help

In these words you can sleep
for this waking world has trapped you
in a mirror of my own torment,
you are so silent but so much is said
you who smiled when I needed it most
who guided my hand when I knew no direction

And when you read this
think only of time to come
for what passes is already gone

Each second is your entire life
Each minute is your entire life
Each hour is your entire life
Each day
Each week month year decade century millenia era aeon is your entire life
And I will celebrate them with you even when these worlds tear us apart
for you and I are poetry
for you and I are infinity
for you and I are luxury
for you and I are both perfect hands for time
for you and I move very quickly indeed
for I shall lose you and you shall lose me.