Cascade

Your fingers interlaced with mine
The earliest statement that we were together
That you were mine and I was yours

As days and nights cascaded through our fingers
Like my hands through your hair
Like your touch through my soul

To peer into your eyes and know what love looked like
To reach like Icarus toward Heaven
And have you embrace me in the clouds

To hold the passion that we yearn for in our dreams
And are left haunted in the embers of its aftermath

As the wind blows the ashes past my feet
I stare down. I dare not look at Heaven
For I might fall again
And my tears might blind me

Shaking like my soul is splitting
And I've naught to dream of but what used to be
Wrapped about with my burnt and broken wings
Against the cold.

As Morning Star in my contemplation.
Endless, these moments where I can't breathe
Holding the Earth so I don't fall away
Remembering all you were to me.