Fossils

There is a moment

that I daren't define

by seconds, years

any measure of time

since it would bear no resemblance

to the size of it all

the depth, mass, gravitational pull

It began with an instant

a flint's ignite

we kindled over anger

exploded to life

all of a sudden. 

then slower, each day

our world gathered up

though the edges were frayed

with all 'round us chaos

we kept torturous embrace

chose any direction

and founded the place

where we'd lay waste to our senses

to forget, in a way

that the more we grew closer

the less we could say

when the skies finally settled

and sealed us in

you kicked off in venture,

forgot how to swim

so I started to walk

on my own, to begin

with my love dragged behind me

to catch on the wind

That wouldn't quite take it

for it had been exhausted

by shaping the mountains

and the seas that we haunted

Over a course

it slumped to the ground

became compressed into history

and you weren't to be found

The moment had passed

it means more, ever still

and occasionally I dig up

the finest of fossils