I heard you fall in every breath you took
Unhitched and absolved, your hair fell different.
Your eyes were aglow with the excitement of promise
The boy in red
The red of autumn, crisp underfoot
the red that fell across your cheek
The red that tinged the opal of your eyes
A red that filled and overtook;
leaving no semblance of what could've been
A red that burned out all possibility
Stilling the frame of our life
Red that at once - ended