The wind swept the land
And took my heart along with,
Stagnant in air so still and
Cold, frozen in mid-beat,
Suspended, forever captured,
But it was you, darling,
It was you who
Reached just a little further
Out than most would dare,
It was you who stretched
Over the fall below,
Legs dangling this way and
That over the gutter of
The roof in which you sat,
Straining until finally, all
At once, you pulled my
Heart so trapped into the
Warmth of your embrace,
And all the fruitless efforts
Of those before vanished.
But oh, how I was shaken
To see you gaze back,
Eyes like the sea so
Green, and plummet to
The darkness below,
Clutching my heart the
Entire way down,
The flow of your wind-blown
Hair covering the tears
You shed as you
Fell.