A thousand years from this time , this place
I shall find you , once again we shall meet
the years you'll find have been kind to me
an arid dune will bear no semblance of description
to this present incarnation , you'll soon discover

Dear most treasured memory , I have surpassed the toils
those mortal coils have unraveled , in a manner superb
and yet this gift of ageless flesh is superior in some respects
it is not without some share of vices

I cannot shed the light of dreams as easily
as the once constant spectre of inevitably dying
that once in day I felt the golden breath of the sun
radiantly exhaling across my cheek with a warmth
one I come to realise was taken for granted
and truth be known I miss it so , with a private sadness
one that cannot be shared , for those who know
would wish not to speak of such things from past existence
such it is this way of 'so-called' life I have chosen to 'live'

I recall your tender promise upon a moonlit night like this -

'that you'd never leave me as lone ,
forever together we two would be'

But how can such wishes prosper
when you're no longer here to make them flourish ....

Denied my greatest aspiration and left bereft of whole
I fell into a mental anguish I thought I could never know
and this body suffered in parallel
reflecting the broken mirror that had shattered within
that inside I had died a monumental death
not only of spirit but also of soul
burdens insurmountable surrounding and routing me

Within despair I wept silent tears
till my loves loss had desiccated me dried

At the point of ultimate pivot she came unto me then
a whisper of that which was gone beyond my human reach

I felt the cool presence of her mystical lips
as they sought to reaffirm me
turn back the hold swiftly slipping through my grasp
while her impassioned kiss drank me
with an urgency that demanded nothing less then complete submission

I fell further than a falling star
into myself I slowly sank till I could hardly feel
then gradually I began to reawaken

'I tell you now not to speak of things which cannot be spoken
accept that as anew you've be reborn
the past must be now and always a distant figment of mind
you belong to the moonlit constellations as their child
from this first undying breath and forever more'

I stepped forth into shadow light and saw all as never before ....

But never did I forget
and this day of year
as all the hundred other that have preceded it
I come to this place - your final repose
and ask you to return to me
for I shall wait for you
through a thousand years and more
knowing in this eternal beating heart
my love is immortal

RKS