From long ago, I've known your name
and prize it— though you won't speak Mine.
(I held your breath till you became.)

From long ago, I've known your name
and that you'd leave me. All the same,
I'll love you past the thin red line:

From long ago, I've known your name
and prize it— though you won't speak Mine.

*Triolet: A poetic form consisting of 8 lines, where the 1st, 4th, and 7th lines repeat, and the 2nd and 8th lines do as well. The rhyme scheme is simple: ABaAabAB, capital letters representing the repeated lines.