The Void of Reunion

In the bluish evening you came again
On the decaying college stairs —
After ten years; in your eyes were
Shadow-laden memories of purple sunset light.
I saw on your fingers
The marks of time's cycle — dusty scratches of years;
You saw silver roots in my graying hair.
In the crowd of familiar unfamiliar faces
We lost ourselves searching for each other;
Your painted colors and my law books
Merged in a strange melancholy.
Standing in the garden under moonlight
Our shadows met in infinite silence,
Where once teenage love's dreams existed.
At your lips' touch awakened
A bird of dead spring;
But that bird knows
This kiss will end in winter's fog.
Returning to the old flat
I saw — on the walls of our love
Now only dirt and cracks spread.
We embraced
The shadow of a mirage;
In dawn's light I see —
Dew of tears collected in your eyes,
In my chest only emptiness.
Ten years of separation
Didn't erase our distance in one night.