After

The best of lovers will one day part
and such sad moments break many a heart
maybe a lifetime together has then passed
or one has gone, leaving questions to be asked

But then after the love of your life has gone
can you find new strength to somehow carry on
will there be words from friends to impart any peace
while you struggle through each day until your final release

To each...

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Burnt sacrifice

She was as wild as the ice, sunlit springtime

a soft furnace of eyes spread the heat

no noble breast pounds like her lovers’

together the circles complete

It's a pattern the art for the fusing

their hands are clasped like a vice

entwined on the altar of promise

their love is the burnt sacrifice

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