And They Wished for ‘Forever’

“The Kiss” – Gustav Klimt

“Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; 
then to that twenty, add a hundred more: 
A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, 
to make that thousand up a million. 
Treble that million, and when that is done, 
let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.” 
– Robert Herrick -

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~ and they wished for ‘forever’ ~

in the span of a heartbeat
our past and future met 
dancing circles around the stars
for the universe to behold

we became the reason
that time dared not exist
while sun and moon promised
to always come out when we kissed

‘forever’ was a lullaby
whispered on the breeze
its meaning held as lovers meld
and hearts and souls unite

and we will look back
to a hundred years ago
to the first kiss, and the tenth kiss
and the kiss where we lost control

to idyllic sighs and all love implies
we’ll think ‘those were the days’
but in the span of a second heartbeat
our love unfolds anew.

© Dahlia Ramone: August 28, 2015