You Took The Place of Stars

Two bodies with a pull unknown to nature

The lover and the loved lie between the whole of the world

Take up the whole of the world;

Divide the  whole of life between his blanketed caress

And her yielding body -

I laid  myself down to be held by you

With only two bodies, of the lover and the loved

The sunlight stays locked from passing shadows

It is simply he and her rooting into earth

Blossoming greater than memories of flowers in Spring

And as with shunning sunlight, he fenced the stars from view -

But you took the place of stars

The days have passed, their world has turned to new day

What she thought were eternal tree trunks roots

Did become loose by nothing more than his driftless wind

She stands alone at the edge of what is true ground

And has felt sunlight passing skin, radiating shadows -

I once saw you as every little thing