My Little Piece of Ash

I thought you would burn far longer

Than you just have

My little darling in a silk sheet

I had tried to give you something to live for

Something to eat

But I guess my words fell short of safety

Short of grief

Because your lips cracked up in hunger

And I couldn’t produce enough heat

To keep those little bones alive

There’s something quite gruesome about loving someone who can’t survive

A thing that is destined to die

But I was sure I heard you in a dream

Heard you cry

And thought that we were bound to meet

Is it so utterly insane to miss something you never had

And didn’t even need

I reckon so

But while you were just an idea

A singles flake in a landscape of snow

I knew I would love you with all I had