Your starriest gaze

Clear warmth and admiration

How unfamiliar

With what gravity it pulls

The future and what-could-be’s

Bold, inspiring—

Projected through your mind’s eye

Your plans infectious

I learned your perfections through

How clearly you, mine

Despite my strongest yearnings

Your love stood alone

Your desire so fierce

Igniting me and mine whole

Your loving fingers

Now grace once hopeful ashes