When I searched for it

When I searched for it

If I used the forbidden eye

to bring back the old wooden bridge

over the slow streaming brook,

the gnarled carvings of names

had long weathered in the wind

that once blew through my hair

past your face with twin candles

lit in your eyes and your arms

like long lost security

so tightly around me.

We watched the fast swimming

fish, the shimmer of dragonflies

hovering over emerald grasses

moved in an incessant rhythm

with the underwater currents.

Not to return to the other life,

Not to pass my nights in emptiness,

Not to sleep with the same man

since I found you. When I asked

for your name it was lost.

When I searched for it

I found it hidden underground.

Off in a flash of awareness, you left

me alone in the fog.

My eyes extinct, full of smoke.