I love you like a river waiting

Patiently for Springtime to blossom

When the mountains and your sugared snow

Will melt in the rolling golden sunshine

Where mossy and glittering

A babbling brightness will trickle

Down roiling cliff-sides and cascades

To fill my belly with butterflied rapids

Till together we will spill over

Blushing banks and rush on

To be safe in the soft spray of seas

Until finally found and brought home

Suspended and sparkling in light soft as honey

Held slow in silken silence and sky

Do you think that our love is like water, perhaps?

Do you think that when it's over, maybe we could do it all again?

Become the pattern of a poem

Pressing on amongst woodland stars and soil?

I'd like to think so

I would like to take your hand here

Step into something so big and sweet

So strong and unending

As entropic as an eternity

Sailed forward by nothing but a sparkle of light

And the fluttering pulse of a promise.

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