On the winds of eternity

Arriving late, face aglow

Your warm breath scattering

The frost from my lips, my heart

You and that tag-a-long cherub

Who plays with arrows

The way some folks pander love

Shots leaving the quiver, leaving me quiver

Star dust shimmers your curls, your cheeks

Glitter flash sparks shooting out

Eyes your candle lit firework show

Until I am wrapped, I am rapt

Sizzling snow slides off your skin

Dancing as it melts

Glancing, as resolve melts

Left stolen from myself to run another’s errand.

I wanted to leave first

Before I’d ask the pith of it of you

No, I’d stay to pray it fast from you

Before inescapably too late

And I am caught up

As blest Elijah upon his whirlwind

But your fiery chariot has no wheels

And your steeds abandoned reins

Wild as a comet’s vacuum gust

Turning only after apogee

They run away with you

Unbridled as they transport me

And in your car, my face burning from the rush

I taste one golden moment

Slaking down some hidden thirst

That will never quite be quenched

But, I’ll remember all you shared 

Top down, hair following on spring trails 

Headed toward Eden, we somehow veered

Darkening embers, returning, fracturing into dust.