You Came Like a Cloud

You came like a cloud promising rain over the mountain of my fears To court the crops with life And soak the thirsty soil to love again. I tasted you barely ... a whiff of words wind blown here A mirage of an oasis in a desert of dessicating sand A phantom in the opera Coloring song ... where are you now? Why are you gone When I was poise like a marble of dew on a tip of a leaf How shall I hold against the splashing fall of grief In the silence of your world Have you taken a sudden voyage in an urge to fly Have you fallen from the giddy height we were to climb Are you broken beyond heart repair Shall you speak to me again here? Where are you days' void and night's meaninglessness When scholars tell stars are glowing bags of gas And day is the fiction of desire? Are you safe ... do I pray in vain Shall change in life's weather bring us rain? I miss our conversation about beggining and depths Of faith we climb to greet our pain I miss the prospects of our love O what did I write from a fluttering heart That frightened committement and frittered us apart If I could flatter you now with my pen I would tell the same truths of love again My beautiful, distant moon, in your western realm afar My heart waits for you like a dorr ajar.