What a silent, beautiful gaze looking at me in this way.
It's so wonderful to feel loved by the dark brown in your eyes.
You calm my heart when I wrap you with my stray arms,
Now and then they wish you were still here.
There were times where all they wanted to do was cuddle softly with you
And, feel your breathe leave the warmth in your soul,
Then, fall asleep to whisk away the fears of being alone.
I often thought of this in your absence.
I never thought they would never have another hug,
I would never have believed that you could ever leave
And the sweetness in you would fade, ever, into darkness
But, into the dark you drift, dry and swift.
If you were still here they would embrace the pain away,
I'd look into your eyes and cry out the sadness I had felt
All the days they could not lean against you when I was down.
That's love, for me, in the bubbles you make, drowning in the sea.
It's love that shoots out your dark amber, brazen;
It's longing that makes you swim so frantically;
I know, it's the pain in me that lets you drown in the sea,
It's the hurt, they feel, that doesn't care that you are dead to me.
