November 15, 2019Poem

More than love, A husband’s story...book coming soon.

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More than love, A husband’s story...book coming soon.

Do you remember

The first time

We walked hand in hand

Across a moonlit beach

At midnight

The texture of sand

Soft and wet

Potters clay

Squeezing up between our toes

The perfect footprints

So sharply defined

Disappearing into the distance

A revelatory experience

As we stand together

Each step we take

No matter how small

Reminds me of the first one

A never-ending cycle

A lifetime lifeline

Every print in overlay

Of the one before

It seems too perfect

A fit

That night of magic

Of bathing and moonlight

Looking back

After all these years

No matter how many times

The scene is revisited

With its fear of discovery

The aroma of seaweed

On a salt-spray breeze

The cacophony

Of Cicadas in fleabane trees

I do believe

It really was

More than love.