Valentine poem.

 

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HAKESPEARE'S   SONNETS

   
     
 

 

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A Valentine poem for older lovers.

  

 

   
 

The years speed by
Remorselessly,
Each bearing a fragment of our past,
Like broken glass.
And so do we.

One day upon another treads
Unceasingly,
Like sheep with undistinguishable heads
Crowding together
One on another.
And so do we.

Minute by minute
Uncountably,
Like raindrops upon the horizon's limit
Or waves of the sea,
Our short lives pass imperceptibly.
And so do we.

Against the advancing, bracing tide
Our love shall stand
On beaches unfathomably wide
Where shell heaps on shell and sand meets sand,
With towering cliffs that the elements hide
And lines of waves that the waves efface,

Yet shall our footsteps together trace
A path as we travel it hand in hand,
That vast immeasurable strand,
Planting a kiss upon its face,
One for you and yet one for me
Defiantly.
So shall it be.

  
   

 

 

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