Letting You Go

Photo by Yoni Kozminsi on Unsplash

I need to let you go
believe me, I do know,
but just a little bit longer
Let your memories linger.

In your stories of yonder
Let me sway asunder.
Like on those phone calls
of past – summers, falls.

For one more time
in your breath sublime
let me be drunken
all my senses sunk in.

Into one last embrace
without refrain or grace
take me; like dying ember
watch me dismember.