One More Kiss

Kissed your lips and whispered to your soul,

hearing weeping of the wind in melancholy moans.

Tortured by your absence, I taste fear of frosty lips,

numbness overcoming as I kiss your chilled memory,

inhaling and exhaling intimacy of what we had.

A final caressing breeze on nape of my neck, rests

between my sighs, stillness sleeps in deep slumber.

Remnants of flickering shadows expose lingering heart,

romance and passion carved lovingly into marble slab,

face of stone crumbling into blackness of tilled soil.

I close my eyes and kiss you a perfumed goodbye

walking with glassy stare on path of forlorn roses,

sunshine washed away by salted tears of closure

as I yearn for one more kiss until I share your realm.