SubtleDagger

Absent Compass Roses

They all were gone and we were there
And I'd swear our eyes met, counted time
And lingered long on lonely rhymes, then left
To try and compromise the space.
Emptiness had always filled the place
Directions would stay late on through the night.

But we were lost and following
Our foolish footsteps, circles on
A map with no legend upon it. We knew
That dawn would never show its face.
Treading forward, always giving chase,
Discovering nothing but where we walked.

We knew that opposite us was the moon,
And so long as this star perilously loomed
Then north and south and east and west
Were doomed.

And she was a statue born of wax
With all her old flames closing in
To melt her sweetest paraffin. What would
A boy know of a cryptic key?
Romance was devoid of geography,
False continents forsaking bordered lines.

The stars were crossed, the planets gone.
The constellations left the skies,
Meandering in lullabies, and our
Eyes refused to see the light of day.
We longed for the celestial bodies' glow
To counteract the hardships that we'd know.

Directly overhead there shone the sun,
And our love would remain forever undone
Until north and south and east and west
Were one.