Farewell to Twins.

It was never hard to reach you
back when when we were solid masses.
Now I try to touch you
but we are naught but shameful gasses.
Hazy, glittering fools
swirling lies as time does pass us.
But the more we fade to black
my mind can only linger
when life was just as solid as a muscle or a finger.
When our faces knew us
and our shells we're fervent strangers.
We knew the names of colors,
you and I like shore and sea.
It wasn't hard to know you
because we were both like me.
Everything we dreamt of
was in rhythmic harmony.
Our minds conversed in languages
alien to everyone.
They thought they could decode us
but we shared an encrypted tongue.
Our folly was vibrant brilliance
and our mistakes made in good fun.
But when the moon did pull away
and the tides began to change,
somehow the language drowned in waves,
the timing in the gray.
Our grip on life began to slip
as the night gives in to day.
Metamorphosis - you tyrant!
Jester Reality at your side
while Lady Life begins to laugh
as peasant fantasy bows out to hide.
Naive smiles melt away,
run-off within the streams we've cried.
Fast forward several lifetimes
through mounds of shredded skin
to a day when we both decided
silently to just give in.
Winter's frozen every Eden
that blossomed deep within.
Shallow pools of empty voids
as we float along this road.
I don't know what you look like
now that my clock's set to "Go."
And if I should ever stumble
across fallible tracks encased in snow,
I can't say that I've missed you
because my heart just doesn't know.