Pillar Of The Sun

Looking at your face is like staring into a void. I brought you back.
You show me your face. Children laugh and play. In chains you drag your
feet to the marketplace. You smile like a child. You are not deceived.
You had dreams before.

The sun rises in a pillar of flame. You hide in a fortress of sadness.
I never knew you. Your shoulders bend for a statue in living rock.
Operculum of silver, the sculptor signs his name. Sun devours moon
with relish. I am a scent on the sighing breeze, an ever-rising
laugh like bells.

Caught in the sphere of your umbra, the sun sets like a wound of scarlet.
Do not let these words confuse you. You are looking for a message you left
behind. Staring at the horizon. My heart is filled with fever. Your
diplomacy beats down on me and promises rain. It has been a long time since I felt a fear of life. You promised to share the alchemy of your gaze with me. It burns through your ozone and I dissolve.