Looking at your face is like staring into a void. I brought you back. You show me your face. Children laugh and play. In chains you drag your feet to the marketplace. You smile like a child. You are not deceived. You had dreams before. The sun rises in a pillar of flame. You hide in a fortress of sadness. I never knew you. Your shoulders bend for a statue in living rock. Operculum of silver, the sculptor signs his name. Sun devours moon with relish. I am a scent on the sighing breeze, an ever-rising laugh like bells. Caught in the sphere of your umbra, the sun sets like a wound of scarlet. Do not let these words confuse you. You are looking for a message you left behind. Staring at the horizon. My heart is filled with fever. Your diplomacy beats down on me and promises rain. It has been a long time since I felt a fear of life. You promised to share the alchemy of your gaze with me. It burns through your ozone and I dissolve.