Why are you leaving?
Gentle heart and precious soul
Masculine yet tempered
With knowing and nurturing
You touched us
A mere lift of an eyebrow
A smirk at the corner of ashen lip
You never left us wanting
Even while you hovered just beyond our reach
Though you tried to shed the capsule
The times number five
You swallowed our tears
Long before they came
Smooth hands reaching for ours
Desperate for kinship
Tangling threads so like the silver
Cord that frayed, even as you held to the vessel -
a half-hearted attempt
We encircled you -forlorn yet loving gazes-
Selfish and struck- asking you to stay
As if holding your hands would lock you in place
So we could dance and dance and dance
Your eyes are fierce in the starlight
Pleading with us to let you
Let go
You are air
You are spirit flowing through the earth and sky
You are the moon, glorious night-maiden
You are the blaze of a thousand suns
And will live on in the eyes of a thousand sons
I know why you are leaving
It is time.
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