Leaving your side is never simple
but it feels impossible today.
Try not to get extinguished and do your best to look away.
Trust in song and hope in crisis.
We can try it together this time.
We keep something that burns us
and release it in the space between breaths.
I cradle our blue flame eternal.
It flickers in my palms,
it dances on the train.
I stoke its embers as you sleep
until it reaches back toward me.
What comfort stills the grieving?
What speech reprieves the punished?
There are only moments,
and moments act alone,
to hold you secure,
to let pain forget how to reach you.
There is nothing left to need in your company,
in your embrace.
New heat for the world within.
Nothing left for us outside.
Just baby’s breath on the windowsill,
sunflowers by the door,
a bottle of wine for the bed,
and a curtain of snow for the streetlight.
Headlights pass across the lake,
cutting through the fog below.
They dance against the shades
and we make love on top of the sheets.
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