Another Death Closer

Maybe the seer had it right

about all those women I have

been but she did not know we

had been trying to undo

a horrible asynchronicity

thousands of years hence.

Damn chronosynclastic infundibulum

when everything converged

within moments of mutual recognition
a roar of thwarted belonging

the rush of a tsunami
a violent tearing away.

Lullaby go to sleep forget

how you returned from many
oceans and nobody was home

those incarnations took their toll

wearing away innocence

eroding hope and meaning.

It does no good to plead with you

to see the years we spent waiting 

for the light to change were secret

preparation for the crossroads

of time and place finally poised on

opposite corners headed for collision.

Earth throws itself spinning

around the sun noisy orb
of madness and lust our
mortal lives extinguished with
a sigh another life without you

without me another death closer.

Sands fall through the hourglass
the piper comes calling for his pay

your waning heart grows

harder and your fences loom

higher still your hand becomes
a fist held up in warning. 

Fate plays me for the fool offers

poison potions willingly swallowed

deceives and seduces without resistance

easy target heart dangles from 
the bridge a bloody padlock ripped

from my chest the key thrown away.

You are always fleeing as

quickly as you can farther

this time than the last

and I am always trying to

find you even in my dreams
calling out your name in my sleep.