Fuchsias are an Autumn Flower

 

 

 

 

            On the fifth I saw your face,

So full of life I let your heart

Collide with mine in

Pyrotechnic dreams,

I knew you then,

As I know you now.

     With time to give,

Our souls to please –

We shared our lives.

Confronting fears we

Forged our passions,

Our only gift of infant life,

(For a long time the

Fuchsias stayed red

In our summer garden).

 

 

 

We’re not for death

We made our oath,

Believed ourselves

We will not be broke,

Catching jealousy

And spite – a challenge

To our every honour.

     Our fate in heavens

Glory, our courtesy,

Witnessed by the stars

We longed to kiss,

Longer still we wanted,

Forever needed,

All our fervent feelings

Salted.

     Those summer

Nights we made it

True – enthused we

Vaulted blues and

Greens – skipped

Along celestial beings

And sat within Aquarius

(Till devils made their call).

 

 

 

     Those days have all

Now passed in time

As memory fades

And takes away your

Smile from mine,

Your wishing eyes

That jolted men

From dreary days!

     To sleep within

Those universal pools

Again would take away

This pain, These icicles

Of broken shards.

     I thought it would be

Forever, until I uttered

Words with spears

In raucous speech

Saluting Gods of wine

And beer, your tears!

     Oh Bacchus pride you lied,

And made a fool of her and I.