Valentine

If Only In Memory

My Love, we stroll down an unchartered path

in the tided sands

Passing a thousand times, unseen footprints

Time, our most cherished and untrusting friend

We ask of it, an eternity

A lifetime, can it only grant us

In this briefness of when we consider the hour kind

How do we selfishly grasp it?

If only in our heart's precious retrieval

We acquire the safe haven of a memory

For in my every collection, I am in awe of your presence

There is but a creation of chance for our two souls

The winds stay not restrained forever

For as it is designed, time will allow it to whisper

it's breath over our path

Grasp tight to my hand

The changing tides of the seasons are soon among us

A lifetime is all we are granted

I pray with each breath I have, shall it be consumed

by your soul and clench tight to your memory

May our cherished memories multiply like the clover

until they are known as legend

Then it will be said that my time was well spent

no matter the hours

And when the master looks upon his creation

He can smile at this one love

for an eternity

even, if only in memory.

~S. Q.