Never Behind

To give is to dispossess;
to possess is the crown.
Still,
a latent feeling begins
when you break a bond
once presumed,
        yet,
    if a rose was never yours,
    how do you give it up?
If naming what is leaving
   unleashes your own void,
   you become the wind
   chasing your will
   not to come undone.
The real crown
    always moves away,
    never to be possessed,
  and yet,
   it's a realm of life and fire
   hidden from sight.

Move, love, move;
   if what remains
      is the defiance of gravity,
   then let us be what remains:
      the rain falling toward the sky,
      our earth melting into magma;
  my love.

Behind, echoes and ghosts
        —possessions
            undone by time—;
ahead, a passionate one
        —infinite loves
            rising beyond every crown.

Wherever the Council of Poets
    remains in silence,
    it belongs to whoever
    becomes their silence.