I opened for no one
but when I found you
I remembered why light exists
we bloomed in the moonlight
and planted no seeds
only our secrets
now the shadows hidden
in the twilight of my heart
are restlessly shifting
slowly marking the hours
I live between the whispers
and the memories
and in the silence
between heartbeats
your name still falls
from my lips
like a blossom falling
from a shaken branch
not broken, not lost
just not mine to hold
© Ann Bagnall
Annie's Poetry 