Your face

Now I know your face in love,it’s brightnessdeep unearthly glow of stars;yes I know your facein love, my love,but I will never knowthe way you look at herrun your fingers throughher hair, stroke her skinin just that place with infinitepower of gentlenessall this; I will never know,because I let you go.I know your eyes at nightgleaming dark across a tablethe way our hands can matchthe swinging symmetry of our stride,a Venus night;but I will never know,the words you whisper in her earthe curve of you in ecstasyfor we were never meant to beand so I let you go.Yes I know your facein love, my love:have traced a finger along line of jawhave kissed in all those secret spotsan elbow bent,the back of kneehave kissed your eyes in sleep.But you're far from me in dream;it’s sand through fingers,hope through sieveit’s all of those unmentionable things:yet here I've come to brighter daysa crossroads where I turn awayfor you will never look at meand so I’ll let you be.