Stardust

My mind would riot while I watched you sleep,
and I slipped into nightmares
while you slipped into dreams.

Convinced in a fate etched in the stars,
but never could we survive the Sun.
As sunlight found me stagnant in bed,
by daybreak you were already gone.

The love I felt in your opalescent gaze

served as a tender reminder 

That our happiness was an oath to be kept in my fingers

when I could no longer feel your hands.

Now our tragedy unfolds into a secret
that I am forced to keep but not understand.

I placed your memory into a box,
accepting goodbye without saying so at all.
Stories I swore I would never forget,
stardust, trinkets and promises I’ve kept.

Opals, emeralds and gold,

your color-shifting eyes

that I yearned to get lost in until we grew old.

Lost and alone

in your city’s light pollution,

my deep brown eyes

shed glistening diamonds.

Our crossing stars were merely dying comets,

and we wished upon stardust until they had vanished.

Wedding vows forever kept unsaid,

and a love I will one day learn to forget.