You were my gift, Soft, sweetness, little one, Eyes of moon and ocean Hills of creation, of shadow And bread. In your nakedness I fled the earth and bathed In starlight and dust at the end Of the forever of the sky. In that silence, Of exploding cosmos and vapour, I fell, feeling in your smiles the suns Decay, I felt light beyond Its barrier, and was decimated In the gravity of the neutron Blue of floating eyes in separation. Your faraway orbs were lost To me in the frozen dark energy Of shunted light and the cold vacuum of space. It was my birthday And you were set on leaving. It was my birthday When I nearly died.