Fading

i'm dying for just another moment and i'm just dreaming, counting the ways to where you are.

you wind around me, entwined,

trailing your fingertips down my back,

igniting fires, i’m burning from the touch.                      (set me on fire,)

[i’m burning for you]

 

you’re so many  beautiful clichés.

you are robed in the shining stars,

and your face is as radiant as the moon.                          (i’ll be your star.)

[i’m shining for you]

 

you are birdsong, you are as free as the sky,

as captive as imagination,

you have captivated me.                                                      (take wing and fly with me,)

[i’m singing for you]

 

you are the reason the sun shines.

you are why people smile,

you are hope, you are warmth in winter.                          (i will hold you up.)

[i’m smiling for you]

 

you are grace embodied.

lithe and stunning, life’s dancer

in endless circles.                                                                 (you are poetry in motion,)

[i’m waiting for you]

 

it is impossible that you exist, a goddess

of imagination and beauty.

but here we are, finally as one.                                           (you are why i take these breaths--)

[i’m longing for you]

 

you are a nebulous recollection

of how it should be--how we should be--

the beautiful beginning, the inevitable end.                         (the angel’s muse.)

[i’m living for you]

 

and now, as you press my hand to your temple,

shedding those lovely tears, i’m dying for just another moment.

i fade away to the beep of hospital machines.                        (you have made it all worthwhile.)

[i’m dying for you]

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Reviews

[Ruth]

The structure to this fabulous! I am so pleased to have read this love! Outstanding work...the enforcing of the emotion after each stanza is breathtaking and the message - wow! What a build up! Brilliantly voiced! xx