AFFECTION FOR US LASTS IN THE UNIVERSE

A LASTing LOVE

Remember when our breath was shared

and we cared enough to dare to love again,

just one last time, forgetting all the previous failures?

I left through the door to see the world of love

and you stayed far behind, thinking to sail there.

Then I saw you did not follow

I broke down and cried,

eventually laid down in the composting leaves and died,

until you found me laying there without a breath or a care.

Back you went to find the door I had walked through

because now a life time later you too

wanted a breathless life to share and

a love like none, you had not seen but once before?

We’ve spent our life together

traveling away from each other

until we were out of sight of the other.

There is no blame to be had

for the garden was barely tended.

It was knowledge of the ways we went on,

the knowing of one another when the caring smoldered,

and for all my life I carried your love

in that hole in my heart always thinking,

wondering how your were doing today.

Before you found that decaying place

to lay yourself down alone,

for dying at home

with you here beside me,

the ring still upon your finger.

© M Durfee

1.26.2014