Let us not talk of lover’s past

Of shoe horned hours in which

We have kissed and made up

Of heavens death or glory swipes

Of that which should have been

Of opportunities soured and missed

The day that this or that

Was not all it should have been

Let us instead talk of the thrall

Of that first sight that kiss

That embrace that was

That still is all that was promised

Let us not scour the lines

Of some cheap and tawdry novel

Let us lose ourselves in each other

Without becoming the limpet hangers

On to another’s story

Let us instead make stories of our own

Together and for one another

Let us not live our lives just as

Thy and thee and you and me and us

Let us be the fusion of so much more

Than, just you and I

Of some people we once knew

Now standing together on a shelf

Let us be forever entwined

Those who are not trapped in root and vine

But to be two and yet one together