a lyric elegy of sorts that works, Robin. I like the finality of that
last line....
Doug
On 7-Jun-06, at 12:19 AM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> Sorry -- slight revision. R.
>
> COUP DE FOUDRE
>
> I feel sorry for them, that
> other pair of us who met in their twenties, so long ago and otherwhere.
>
> Surely, they met as one
> split heart that fused again:
> forever together, always happy
> thereafter, never looked sideways.
>
> (Can happiness be overstated? It has its consolations, poor
> fairytale.)
>
> But we bring divided worlds
> to each other, our pasts held in outstretched hands;
> paths that diverged a time ago,
> separate and separated histories --
> we match and test our scars.
>
> Our own coup de foudre, different and other,
> dear heart of my heart, my ground and bone.
>
>
> ROBIN HAMILTON 7.6.06
>
>
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