I saw a cloud a-melting

I saw a cloud a-melting

Two heaps in the sky

Reaching out for fusion

Right before my eye

 

Wind puffed them towards

Each others’ big embrace

In fever I awaited

Them touching face to face

 

But to my eyes’ surprise

Alas!

They stayed afar

For they were shrinking, melting

Collapsing like a star

 

And what is left of us

A speck above the sea

Fading to horizon

Never meant to be.

 

In memoriam Emily Dickinson