When once a love so thick, now brittle
crumbles between fingers or a laugh at a thumb
bounces off only walls of heart, not teeth
and now at once, for once, the dimming, grinning
glow of admiration settles like ember,
the distant sound of a bell,
a distant bell sounds in a church
where lovers pray and prayers
love in hands with thickening
bonds not brittle flames of laughter
fleeting, old letters let her
be the letters black on black
with only light of heart- one
heart and once was two.
But time again envelops heart
like shark a rapid tooth full gulp
that bite by bite and grin by grin
diminishes as the unfriendly
leaf of an hour, mercifully
slumbering on the shoulder of a breeze.
When once a lover lay on shoulder
boned by promise, now rests and folds
like a pleat in that same wind to
let the leaf tumble, tumble down,
Today is my third anniversary.
Anne Georgia Greenberg
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/september-14th/
