Before you became an imprint on sidewalks steps

I watched your blood bloom on the pink of cherry trees

I stood weeping as petals kissed Adieu to Mother Life

But who was I to deny

As you kindly intertwined with the bluest of skies

I stalled in silence as you pirouetted through twirling breeze

A Fall through eternal cloud

I keep wishing I had warned 

When the currents twisted north, east and south

I still feel torn by the torrents that slashed through your sky

Was it truly I,

Who drowned your perfection into mushed mounds

Or were they flattened under winds of flight

Pounded into ground

In the gust of my ignorance

Your pink particles elapsed to a memory

And you frenziedly grasped for the branches you were born

Just know it was you

Who longed to fly forever unfound

You were desperate to leave

Who you were not 

On the ground