[Update June 24th 2018: Two friends of mine, Jim and Amy, are getting married in Cambridge today. Sadly, I am not well enough to go so they asked if this poem could be read during the service as then I would be there in spirit. It was a lovely thought and I was thrilled to agree without even having to think about it, especially as it will be read by the bridegroom's mother, an old friend from my student days back in the early 1970's who I know will read it well, I hope you will all join with me in wishing Jim and Amy a long and happy life together as man and wife.]
Meanwhile...
Not only
is love is much the same the world over, but it is nearly always the case that
anyone who comes between two lovers has either a bigoted axe to grind against
one or both of them or is simply a socio-cultural-religious anachronism in this
crazy, mixed-up, 21st century of ours.
LOVE, A SENSE OF IMMORTALITY
I have
greeted chimes of midnight,
lain beside you at the toll for one,
while half-dreams flow into starlight
nurturing a life force barely begun
I have
heard the clock ticking over
for the
passing of happy hours
nor
shall, when it stops, run for cover,
but
embrace a time forever ours
I have
heard sweet songs at sunrise,
watched
the last stars slip away,
the dawn of time in Love's bright eyes
promising (another) beautiful day
Where nature pauses as days grow cold,
lovers dream on beyond a growing old
Copyright
R. N. Taber 2007; 2018
[This poem has been slightly revised from the original as it first appeared under the title 'The Night Watch' in Accomplices to Illusion by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2007.]
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