arches and keystone

without one they fall

life sustained by you

or I had nothing at all

 

skies at time of damp

arch of hues on show

feast with brittle rays

grist for my rainbow

 

refraction bends light

you twisted my heart

with love's pot of gold

vowed we'd not part

 

rainbow but an illusion

your promise the same

capricious the crescent

not hot stars do tame

 

my love you reflected

soon shrank the prism

keystone sinking into

monochrome schism

 

bridge to a vacuum

trapped in poor light

gay spectrum vacant

you left me but night