Seventeen Years! Can You Believe It? I Can't
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Seventeen years! Can you believe it? I can't!
Each year of love's a longing left behind,
Vast fields of fading memories. Why can't
Each be etched more deeply in the mind?
No matter. Love's a perennial. It blooms
To seasonal rhythms, but survives by will,
Enduring. Though a wintry wind consumes
Each blossom, the rhizome blossoms still.
No matter. Fulfillment, like music, unfolds through time,
Yielding moments too beautiful to bear
Even as they disappear, each chime
Alight with love, with longing, with tears that tear
Right through the heart again, again, again,
Still, though never still, embrace without end.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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