POEM: I WILL FIND YOU, DEPARTING LIGHT

The night arrives
   As a scheduled train
      Of daylight follows my bride

The serenading sun and clouds
   Ride parallel rails
      With the music of moon and stars

When did I
   Book a time
      To depart my beloved cosmos?   

When was my affair 
   To human islands 
       Penned into my calendar?

Through tunnels 
    Of smoke and darkness
      My band would often gleam

On her hand, a diamond 
   From the coal I burned 
      In this mortal epoch

But now she trails off 
   As vows depart from lips
      "I in the cosmos and the cosmos in me. 
         Hip is joined to hip."

And I depart
   As she has taken with her
      All my beloved sleep

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