Forever love

Lying supine, the Milky Way exposing a surfeit of stars
Against a black-and-blue spilled-ink firmament,
Reflections shimmer in a still-simmering Lake Isabella below,
In the dark, a quality of anticipation sublimates at the surface,
One life, or two, among many, so little, and still so much,
A moment in shared recognition of wonder rises with the moon,
And, this is my forever love

Sitting across a table filled with bright tertiary colored dishes,
Crying Tiger crouches on the teal ceramic oval in front of me 
Though, I am already captured, in your eyes, and by your smile,
While your essential equanimity resonates calm about the place,
Sunset casts a golden hue, and a notion of perfection drifts by, leaving only a tingling memento,
And, this is my forever love

Standing on asphalt at a faded paint center line, Highland Grounds behind me,
The late night air imprints a cooling sensation on my forehead,
You, gone ahead, I pause, imagining the impression of your lips on mine for the first time,
My heart pounds as you draw near, and I become acutely aware of the energy in the universe,
In all of life, this quiet moment between us, a connection to something larger,
I envision somewhere in some other instance, another pairing, like us, hopeful, smile,
And, this is my forever love

Pressing my body in to yours in the tall grass, a faint whisper and sigh blend with foxtail,
Quiet pervades, but for leaves fluttering among oak branches in sway in the midday breeze,
Sunlight, having made its eight minute journey, fragments in a speckled caress of your skin,
Chalk-like cirrocumulus clouds etch in rows on a southwestern azure slate, 
A bittersweet intuition swells in me, this place, this time, we two …all evanescence,
Downslope somewhere, an eddy in the Boone River imitates our union in an aquamarine swirl,
And, this is my forever love

Walking side-by-side, your hand in mine, now years shared between us,
Under an overcast imbued, splintered sunlight sky,
Floating at the dark water's edge,
An accumulation of fallen leaves,
Canary, amber, taupe, beige commingle among the ripples,
A solitary crimson heart-shaped blade makes a furtive reveal,

And, this is my forever love, 

Still

©Wulf 02/19/2022