Alcyone Poem by Lowe Loup

My arms shackled themselves around your neck
clutching at the collar of your coat
Moist fabric against my face, I pleaded-
I can endure whatever comes to us together.
Love flowing from your eyes you held me,
To lose me would be too much to bear.

You left me alone on this shore.

The night's usual respite is lost-
Eleven sets of footprints stagger from my bed
identically shaped, fading into where I now sit.
Gravelly sand fills the spaces between my toes.
The gritty embrace of tiny rocks
is the only solace I find.

I begged to come with you.

Sitting here head between knees,
while silver Aegean waves
kiss my ankles, and erase the small circles
in the mud beneath my chin.
Hiding from the vision of your specter,
My deepest pain on its lips.

Please return to me.

The Morning Star gazes over the horizon
at you, floating on a sea of mirror shards
reflecting misty light, while a Kingfisher
emerges alone from the water,
I slip into the sea.

Two halcyon birds soar above me