DREAM FROM THE SILENT PLANET

that we sailed from
all known things to
bathe in hues beyond
the visible, is now to you
indomitable grayness

years can’t be trusted to
remember how long i waited
for repentance to bow your
steely denial, ever-hardened by
my molten acceptance

waking doesn’t end the cascade
fantastical re-sensations
crash upon themselves
with a vividness reserved for
God and the young

light honey-thick swims
down my cheek and
peace patience gentleness
(unwithering fruits on undying trees)
pray i taste and share

i now more real than myself
offer as you fade from view
no longer solid enough to hold them
and soon it will be true
that you were never here