On a gentle slope you kissed me
Blue stone set in silver ring
Appropriated for this occasion
To signify another thing
And you chose to make that moment
pass without a hint of bliss
Had it been there, perhaps I would think
that's something I would miss.

Pursed lips brush against my shoulder
as a snore becomes a kiss
and I think, "When I am older
I will come to realize this
as a moment that I let pass
in a daydream-laden mist
I could lie and tell myself that
it is something I won't miss.

Did I force you? Did I blame you?
Did I leave us in the fall?
Did I love you? Did I leave you
missing anything at all?

On a gentle slope you left me
falling into an abyss
But the language and the symbol
stand to forge a part in this
blue stone cold in silver ring
promised so much in the spring
words and metal a decree
twist to see the silly thing-

just a hollow promise given
to invoke the need for this.