I Can Hold You

Child, I trace your features
As if I never knew a nose
Your eyes are lit like stars
That lead me through an open door

But I can hold you no more
Than I can hold the rain
Watch it trickle through my fingers
Watch it settle on the floor

Child, your hair of feathers
Beckons me to fly away
I would soar above this misery
Leave the ashes where I stay

But I can hold you no more
Than I can hold the sea
Watch it fall into the void and
Watch it wash all over me

Child, your feet are fragile
And your arms confused with wings
But I am far too fettered
To feel weightless like these things

I can hold you no more
Than I can hold the sky
Watch it empty out the universe
Watch it hold me until I

Can hold you no more