After The Sunset

[When the sienna sun
bids its love to the quarter moon,
I'll be awakening
in that subtle distance.]

April drives silently by
with twisted umbrellas
and over-sized tears-
yet I know my socks,
my legs, will stay dry, soundless
while searching you.
I try to hold on,
for it's all I can do when
my breaths become strained
and my heart further
ties itself to your memory.

I watch dawn's new blushes open up
before creation like a
soft beginning of angels,
and I invite their interference
because never, will I forget-
that time cannot change
how we once lived,
on that unsinkable ship.

Your warm russet eyes
are the counselor I respire for,
I cannot be baffled
when I'm surrounded by the passion
of your dear irises-
they keep me from stumbling back
and forcing myself to drown,
after you,

After the sunset..........

It feels like only yesterday
since water as abundant as the sky,
froze our words, challenging our fingers
to be the only attachment
the only sense of touch allowed.

And it still feels like we are
perched on the rail of that ship,
watching stars settle and midnight wink-
into a sapphire hole of utter
vulnerability,
though it's been a hundred years.

[As if nothing could make us fall
through horizons, as if waters
of vengeance would keep peace....]
I gave all of who I knew to be
for you.

But just as I remember
you dropping from my frigid arms,
the punch of summers' enemy,
your last breath fading like smoke,
I remember your smile-
how I followed you, running
into the vast blue ocean
that would become your home.

And I'll never watch the sunset
reflect your smile again;
I just can't go on when the sky
around me is drowning
my chords,
I will die by this ocean,
a survivor of our love
and of tragedy's place for me.

I promise you love,
I'm not letting go
for I know where I'll be
if God restarts my heart
and my mind is filled
with you forever.

Prompt: Titanic survivor for the site contest here.
Thanks for reading!