as for days
they aren’t so heavy
that I can’t hear your voice
as miles I never walked
I drift between

remainders of a time we talked
in whispers of surrender –
hand in hand
eternity restored

as promise we had felt return
when fit together walking
and graced the sun
with touch beneath the green

took of faith
a fated leap –
tho knew not of tomorrow
or where the tides would leave us
with our dreams

forgotten as the first
to step
the last to leave for heaven –
and paradise
was sworn to bring us home

wishes we might never speak
lest worlds be crushed
in moving –
another star
when thought we were alone

I can’t be sure
but sometimes there
I wonder to your passing
and question –
more and more
the why you came

familiar as an unfamiliar
presence on the night –
breath the same as mine
I couldn’t know

stories wait the telling
as pages grieve the pen –
paths we walked are covered now
with snow –

oceans turn between the lights
of where we were
remember –
as lifetimes passed
(I can’t be sure)

I know
what I can’t know