When the Moon Fades

When The Moon fades He sits under the fading moonlight Helplessly staring at the Menacing sliding of unforgiving clouds As they slowly swallow the gentle moon She is the moon he never saw The moon he never knew Creeping stars are fading It is raining in his heart He traded the message of dawn For a twilights’ remembrance He rubs his tear stained eyes As a wind of regret brushes hard Against his will to forgive himself For never hearing the echo in her voice For not kneeling low enough To hear her footsteps For not looking close enough To see her tears For not hearing her screams In the midst of her laughter Passions he missed in her last kiss Defining steps he missed in her last dance How was it possible to see beyond? With a love so bargaining and less of will Legend of strength and elegance she was Always a fighter, woman of substance Fountain of love, sea of compassion Never shaken by malicious claws of past That noxiously snared her winsome soul Even now the sky spells her name The dynamites of her vibrant giggles Ignites the stuck pieces of her memory The blurred flash backs of unsung melodies The ever wanting shadows of her image That lay still in the walls of his heart She was a portrait of death in his life A sleeping beauty, she lays eternally The blushing bride is past He has fallen in love with her She is a trail of fallen petals The roses will never grow She now lives in him He once lived in her She is the best that he had The best there will ever be