I Have Come To Love You Like I Have Loved None More Poem by Gabyel Rei Guillen

What now then that you are gone?
And I, left with none but my pain, and your eyes,
Your lips

And your lips against mine on empty air
Or my cheek against the flower of yours
Pressed against my empty palms

What now then that you are absent?
And the night remains as magnificent as ever
What now then that the wind shall not carry
My voice to your ears, which are close and distant

I say it will be like bridges collapsing,
But with no waters to fall to
No rocks to crash upon,
And the void catching it with still time

I say it will be like apples or apple trees
With the apples floating on desolate fullness
And the tree bore to stand with no roots
With the lover beneath it catching
The shade of a non-existing shade

I say it will be like a haunting
By the shore, beside the sea
When all is quiet and calm
And I hear only your breath
Believing that the waters speak
Or the sea shells stare
All the while hoping it be you

I say it will be like my cheeks pressed against
The flower of yours
When the night is as magnificent as it is always
And the water speaks to us
And the sea shells stare in envy

And your arms and your embrace
With my body within it

But the wind does not carry me to you
Nor my voice, or your gaze
And I fear that you are gone
As I come to love you more
Without rest and without resentment

I have come to love you more
Though I have come to have none more
Of you at my side
And the night remains as magnificent
Far away within your eyes