Your
love was me
Ravishing the sun
I
couldn’t see
You slipped away free
A little girl who’d lost
Her
trusting way
Bravely hesitat-
-ing
how to stay
You couldn't say
The rainbow forest says what we can’t bear
Hearts we lived inside
Were never there
You left your secrets hanging in the trees
But I never will know where
The Eno River
Kept
on to its course
As we babbled on
‘Til
we were hoarse
Far from the source
The world we shared was
Nothing
but this world
In silent treatment
Slow unfurled
Lips only pearled
The rainbow forest shining in the pond
Faces smiling
From a wand
What the frieze reveals is all we know
But it never goes beyond
I have lived inside another’s dream
Without a feeling
I have played so many foreign scenes
To
think of stealing
I have rushed to sides of broken hearts
Without thinking it was mine that fell apart
And now the leaves remind me of the time
I spent wasted on the swelling brine
For you were never what I thought you were
And neither was I
The rainbow forest holds its secrets well
The sugar maples
Never tell
I wait and wait again at our old stone
For the closing mercy bell
Leaves like drops of rain
Easy from the breeze
Fall around my feet
Like
a gift from grieving trees
So I can know how what I feel is shared
Across the living stars and breathing seas
The rainbow forest lets its losses blow
It’s beautiful
To never know
Even the most narrow love goes on
As one endlessly it goes