countless seconds minutes hours
countless days weeks months
years reckoning decades
lifetimes lifetimes lifetimes
a sprout that resists fruition
wilted by the frost of disappointment
doomed by the drought of apathy
obliterated by the freeze of neglect
yet the seed remains firmly planted
sown by we with misty-eyed wonder
veiling marrow-deep knowledge
an essence of Innamorato encased
in patient longing