you are gone

and the night is silent

as the stars tremble

in the distance

nearby

the winds spin and dance 

to the nocturnal songs

of crickets’ violins 

many summer eves

you held me inside our tent

from dusk till dawn 

under the infinite sky

at eventide

I listened to your heart

beating to the rhythm 

of waves playing with sand

my poems fall 

like dew over the grass

dripping loneliness and loss

‘cause you are gone