Unwaning

I've spoken in whispers with ancient trees

I've floated in primal and untamed seas

I've glimpsed the bright fire in mortal hearts

So too the darkness that tears them apart

In reverie unchanging

With eons left remaining

I long to feel the gloom and shade

No temperate twilight of fire unmade

All meaning decayed

My glade is filled with hollow joy

No loss to define me, to build or destroy

Without that breathless give and take

What use a heart that cannot ache?

My fingers have traced the arcs of lives

All struggles but one, they must survive

Though each day is long, each decade brief

There's immortal beauty in tender grief

They love with a fervent, blazing fire

'Til lost and charred in funeral pyres

My passion needs no pain for fuel

My heart is distant, moonlit, cool

I long to feel the gloom and shade

No temperate twilight of fire unmade

Without that breathless give and take

What use a heart that cannot ache?

I seek a spark that can ignite

This hollow space, our starless night

To feel the warming, burning flame

To pay the cost, and feel the pain

To live and die, and take a chance

To break free from idle trance

I long to feel the gloom and shade

No temperate twilight of fire unmade

All meaning decayed

My glade is filled with hollow joy

No loss to define me, to build or destroy

Without that breathless give and take

What use a heart that cannot ache?

In reverie unchanging

With eons left remaining

The moon above unwaning

Unwaning, unwaning