I Kiss Your Memory

I kiss your memory in muted hues
(In the small, cramped seconds before I sleep)
In greying green and faded blue.

I touch upon pale almost flesh...
Knowing this vision will not keep
I kiss your memory in muted hues

Apparitions whisper no staling breath
But haunt monochrome dreams by scarring deep
In greying green and faded blue

My eyes are ones that never wept
Until dreams fell in tumbled heap--
I kiss your memory in muted hues

Oh, that I had never drifted and slept
On a stained, tired bed where spirits creep
In greying green and faded blue!

I swear that I will not forget
While burning, burnished, ravaging eyes weep

I kiss your memory with muted hues
In greying green and faded blue.