To Love Just Once Poem by Simon Collins

Take it away
that steel moulded thing
shining for this heart
like a trickster you sing
all the golden dawns
their colors ran
I missed the stage
too cold to act
passing all the light
up for the black
so blind to friendship
like a fallen hunters bird
I lie waiting
to be eaten
back to dust,
but there is a hand
offered in love
all I ever wanted
to leave fear
to hold your
deep trust near
you only know this
makes me real
so you will notice
the light
that merges
when I ask to
be your breath
between my
birth and glorious
death