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SUCH A LOVE BETWEEN US
SUCH A LOVE BETWEEN US
Between banners our heart endures; between heartbeats and throbs;
Between our teeth is the tongue that bespeaks our avowed intentions
Of the inner workings of our love’s seeking fuller containments.
Even the laments of our sorrow resolves itself in a purer form, embracing
Ascending angels taking us beyond any sad duration. What we have between
Us is the interminable space longing for the inwardness of our love.
But, oh how alien are the streets of the grief stricken cities of cacophony
Choked noise; the false silence of louder noises muffling cries of desolation.
Our love tramples out those empty spaces of untasted bliss-between us.
Between us ready made churches do not have the sacrament of our bread and wine;
Empty post offices on Sunday with their mail dispatched to far away zip-codes
Do not bower the country nor is electronic transfer as fleet as our love.
Between us and highway billboards dot so many byways but we are not
In need of such advertisements; between us is a silent space with no need
For any beckoning, signaling, embellishments or gaudy enticements.
Here in the valley of forgetfulness, the elder attends the question of youths
Driven by narcisscism, “What do you older folk have between you?” “Between
Us they say, “Forgotten spaces will long for the ambrosia of our immortal love.”
The love between us will outlast the gaze of the Sphinx to the stars and there
Will be more buoyancy between the spaces of the juggler and only holy fools
With their enigmatic smiles will sense the bliss driven wind between us.
Even the gorge of death between us will shimmer in the moonlight and the
Forgotten ones will find their way between heaven and earth; between us, the
Scrolls of forgotten parchment will proclaim their was such a love between us.
