I loved you from afar
on this island I call “myself,”
watching you travel across a dark sky
to light the night.
When you were here
the sea shined a blue I never knew
and once you left the beauty stayed,
reminding me of you.
I knew your name yet never called,
expecting you to return as easily as you came;
now I scream in hopes you’re near
but you are too far to hear.
Wherever you are,
a cascade of hue surely following,
know that it was you who showed me the day
and nothing could take such a lesson away.
