Half Life Day
I had my first date with my (now) wife on Easter Monday, 1986. This was the 8,137th day of my life. 9 July, 2008 was 8,137 days on from that first date and point at which we had been together exactly half my life. This is the longest I have ever gone out with a girl!
Dark, dark and dark the night
As we walked, squeezing the last moments
From the weekend before work
Usurped our time.
Bright, bright and bright the stars
That pinpricked the velvet indigo
And eavesdropped our whispered
Intimacies.
Soft, soft and soft your face
I held
As creeping certainty
Came calling.
Sweet, sweet and sweet your kiss
As together falling
From casual romance
To soul certain permanence.
Impromptu proposal
Met with a breathless “Yes”.
Quick, quick and quick the years
Once constant companion
Now distant acquaintance
Taking our moments.
For souvenirs
Cold, cold and cold the days
When sorrow shared our souls.
Rain cloud shadow
A weeping canopy
Blocking the sunlight
Hard, hard and hard the words
At times as edge on edge
We smoothed and shaped
Each other
Fashioning a better fit.
Deep, deep and deep the love
That remains ingrained
Making one from two.
So I stand on Half Life Day
The man I am,
Because of you.
Jeff Dawson
Wed 23rd Jul 2008 13:25
Hi Mark really like this, like the concept of using the same word 3 times on each first line, and wonderful description, yours, approaching 17000 days old, Jeffarama!