always the moonlit yearning
kiss unknown and unimagined
me the ghostly refractive ring
goodnight illumined

the night hours still count
dragging on as they do
directionless
unloved
but never to return
and thus to be embraced

snuffling congested breaths
the pendulum
enumerating this time
my little girl
deep in her dreams
will not remember soothing me
as I trudge toward dawn

the garden we thought of planting
arches higher each season
shading with dreams
the empty weeds

a rainbow of lorikeets
chattering helplessly
sodden
with the evil red berries

there will be a last storm  
flickering intent  
adrenaline raised  
towers to heaven  
ecstatic torrents  
and then I will be gone

sun
spray
and showers
soulbird skims
the olive sea

hands clasped on my cheek
unknown which is hers
and which mine
in this languid rest