She came to me like a sapphic love song, A tune so beautiful, so fleeting, like a mockingbird cooing on a distant tawny branch She hid amongst the shadows, sliding out between the line where the sky met the earth, Where the moon kissed the sun goodbye. I never expected for someone who lived only amongst the twilight, The dusk, and the horizon The sinewy greys, the gaps between each thud of my heart The in betweens of all that is good and all that is me To say goodbye. For when does parting become sorrow Where is the sweetness that lies within it?