Green Eyes

The night we met
Your green eyes stopped me in my tracks
And I was taken back to all the days
I locked my gaze with snakes
My heart attacked and shook and ached
While the waning moon forgets her alibis
I suddenly realize that those green eyes
Can see past the wreckage of all my intentions and desires
You had already lit a sacred fire in the space you made for my pain
Honoring me, before I even knew your name

But I know your name, I know it now
And when all the stars are thick and low
It is you who gifts me faith and shows a path
Between the violence and chaos of war weary ghosts
Their broken weapons strewn about
The babble of love languages fading out
All the ones who dared to love but lost it
Lost themselves or were discarded
Star crossed, gnawing on bones, or dying
You clasp my hands tightly and help me with my prayers

And so it is said that the moon follows lovers
Even when she is dissolved into darkness and hollow
We still feel her radiance tonight in embrace
Feel the wholeness of her cycle all at once, a promise
And maybe it is we're not really in love
And your eyes are less snake green and more the gray of a dove
But there is beauty in this trust that mocks what is most broken
And when all the words we need to say are spoken
The fallen stars frantic rise and crack open the sky
Our first moon pulls its first light from the phosphorescent crone
Together we, side by side, set course and fly
Forward and home