Dear heart you are leaving
You are leaving me behind
And I forgive you because I left you, and we both remember how much that stung, although you hide your pain better than I do
You hide better than I do
You, better than I.
You are leaving, dear,
You are leaving our world of peach juice dripping down arms
Of midnight whispers
And the overwhelming drone of cicadas.
I watch from across the street
And I realize that you have already left.
You have already left me in my palace of memories
For I left you
I left you, dear heart,
In the actual physical world we built together
So every day you walked the hallowed halls of our youths
Seeing all the places we weren't together.
You are used to it now
The years have taught you that this space is no longer ours
It is yours.
You in your space have earned your right to devote it how you please
You have earned the happiness of young love
You, love.
I wonder sometimes as the childhood between your eyes fades
If you and I belonged to some other world
If once you and I were keepers of some great key,
You and I.
Now we are off once more
Into the breach
Into our wild worlds, so apart.
I wish I could have brought you with me.
I wish I could go with you now.
Instead we have only words with which to hold one another.
Dear heart, I am holding you.
Dear heart.