The Reflection Pool

Its all in the eyes
so           when you looked at me

it broke my heart

divinity was lost with
a single glance
no emotion wasted
it was out loud
like a cat’s scream
a woman’s pain
wrapped in a girl’s
maturity          all lost
in a single moment
a single breath
a sucking in of air
that was never released

the sweetness of breath
kept us from losing ourselves
in the pieces of you
that were laid out
on the table for grabbing
and I am responsible
for the loss of one of
your parts

the loss of your innocence

but before I let you disappear
I will hold on because
this world needs
every little bit of you
I need you

you validate my existence
you give me duty     you
give me purpose      you
give me balance      without
you I am just another body
on this plane of existence

that piece I’ve taken from
you      it is now a part
of me          we will always be
one in this existential thing
I’ll call life because love
is a word far too potent
for my purpose
though don’t be surprised when
I say          I love you

that is the set of words
that comes close to what
I feel from you
if I believed in karmic connections
mine would be with you,
I suppose
though I speak to another
dimension of you
the you that you haven’t
found          its there  a budding
sapling waiting for its first spring
you’ll grow I’ll sit waiting               watching