TENDER GOODBYES

With the come of Spring

also begin the ends

A constant elongation

a stretch of hands

a common mistake

that takes love for adoration

Try to win your attention

those wild seconds you lend me

through your letters, your fingers

and that voice by the shore.

All at one moment

seems so magical, so tragic
I only think one thought:

that the embrace should happen

in the face of the wildfire.

But it disappears and fades,

it leaves while I despair.

I try to open that window again

while I drink that sweet poison of yours.

I fall, I fall until I need you

Need not to see you go

but stay and share,

find an excuse, find a time

and find a place at last.

But no, as the dream came

the jump avoided

the unknown rested where it is

You leave with notice,

Instead of being a dream

what it has always been about

it is a friendly face, a disgrace

that leaves me cherishing

your tender goodbyes.