Black Diamond

Heavy tears fall to the hard marble floor like beads of glass.
A sliver of conscience mares her innocence with the full weight of thought.
She survives yet her beloved was cast into a most punishing death
Ostracized for their beliefs, they were born in flight
Escape, a most fundamental act to their forced repertoire of call and response
A monstrosity of a lifestyle. Electrochemical fission. Spent nuclear decay
They radiated
Enamored vagabonds who reciprocated forbidden passion at the cost of life

And now she realizes it
Nothing is so tragic as a lost minute
Outcasts, yes, but they had each other like romance requires love
Binary stars shining together within a vast charcoal canvas
Other days she had felt like a supernovae
but today her heart was captured by the blackest of holes
Vapid
Vast
and piercing
She cries out his name to no one.
Yet this time the gods sympathize with her
Clemency takes the form of a rainbow chaining her to the horizon
The end of the arc shines in his image
Her memory of him more precious than the black diamond on her finger
A simple symbol of their relationship:
Impenetrable beauty crafted under enormous pressure
Their untold story
Their legacy
Someday she is bound to share
but for now her state is complexity and deliberation
a yawning black hole consuming all the life
they created
together.