You were a threat to my stained glass sanity Armed with rocks and a voice That could cure a feminist When I tried to tell you I love you, I need you slipped out too I found childhood dreams in your smile Dressing up in mirrors for prince charmings That never amounted to the ones I found In bottle bottoms Cigarette smoke Your rescue was less brief Supernova beautied death In your Hemingwayan terse verse "I love you, sweet. I must go." Darling Tattoo my initials in your mind (As I've done yours) Just the way we carved them across town Marking places we'd been And now you lurk in Every shadow Of my Every memory And I can't do much But cry And smile At our bittersweet demise