PARTITIONS POEM 2

Do you keep secrets? There are some things you never tell and some things that you never forget. I believe you can have special relationships with people that are not cast asunder by distance - sometimes I send people poems to remind them of me, as well as messages. Love is like that, I think, something tangible you can grow but only in spirit.

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Rough Seas

By the rock we stood,

Holding hands

And protesting our love,

Protecting our love,

We fell aside and parted ways,

Spacially asunder

And therefore no longer

At threat.

“There are rough seas ahead my love –

Let us hide our secret and save it from harm.”

So we went our way,

Solid in our single minded nature,

As sceptical as a wave,

We chid the rock

And smoothed the sand,

Bilaterally cut

We were hard

And succeeded

In cheating life itself.

What was left of our secret?

We did not know,

For how we felt of anything,

We did not care to show,

As life itself is precious,

Without intimacy

And fear of betrayal.

Beyond time and space,

A trail of thought,

Intensions

And rough hewn purposes

We became what we became,

Standing before each other in years to come,

Will we recognise

The other’s face?

Rough seas we faced and conquered ourselves

And thereby saved us,

What is left?

The lines of time,

Promises unfulfilled

And a secret we never told.

"Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened." Thomas Hardy