a thousand years
returning
another to endure
as twilight burned –
I can’t say for sure

whether I was yours
or you became
mine but for a night
a dream displaced
long before
daylight

before the plead
of morning
the rush of words to skin
was it the same
I knew you
as you knew me
then

you were there
when love became
the deepest want of all
– another life
beyond the
night birds call

whispered
into shadow –
the promise of goodbye
a thousand lives
surrendered
to a sigh

. . .