I remember the last time we talked My voice trembled like a violin string As always my mouth was numb and locked And the phrases I couldn't utter seemed to boil and sting I watched distraught words float by on the breeze As I desperately tried explaining to you, With embarrassment and unease All we could and should be, all I dreamed and knew Tried weaving a future from a tangled past. I saw you through curtains of heavy fog Your eyes bleary and glassed I stuttered and muttered and wept and I couldn't And I knew that I wouldn't Give words to the ineffable mess in my brain. I looked up, the mist breathed slowly You walked away like a slow and silent midnight train The sun was shining through the clouds, golden and holy As the white haze of things unsaid weighed upon the rolling hills