Cleaving Shadows

Ebbing spirit's light
fractures as fading star
twin hearts feeling throbbing talons,
which clawed defiantly at day
now shorn and withered
feebly able to still pierce the pulse.

Tourniquet dialogues,
despair soliloquy in dismay
failed coagulation
for hemorrhaged of parting caress.

Eyes entwined
in decade's nuptial embrace
slowly bid their requiem adieu,
fingers once laced
fall in muted, longing's ache
across the distance of a heartbeat.

Cleaving shadows
cherished
as veil of private flashback embers
spent in silent soothing vigil
for satin sheet sonnets.

Quivering terminal lips bequeath
love's legacy,
tearful will written with heart's farewell
before breath flows to sky
and heirs left memories as good-bye.