I chanced a photograph of you, your past lives together
With radiant smiles of such hope, I truly cannot conceive
A dazzling moment of existence, expectations and dreams
Made other memories diminished, at best incomplete
What was this occasion that I’ve never known
Your beginnings together before I was born
From a look and a smile, to promised vows, then a kiss
I’m not sure I knew that your love was like this
You engendered my birth, that tempestuous beginning
Light, sounds and breath, both of life and of death
Death of my anticipated, cocooned creation
A resplendent, frail daybreak in such foreign, new lands
Newborn in such a vast, boundless inception
I smile, I laugh, I look, I touch
Curious eyes reach for the alluring, the wonderful
We share life together, through each unexplored day
In overwhelming beginnings, I reach out and take in
The grandeur and vastness of so many awakenings
Spring of life, so many mysteries enchant and enthrall
The sun rises, shining steady, on fates yet unknown
Though darkness waits cunningly, we hold on to our light
And both truths in time shall counsel us, sternly
Pulling us here and there, bright chance and tense fate
Both casting long shadows round the roots of our lives
And now in my bones, in my heart and my blood
I hold on to each glimmer to remember your love
That innocently, yet wishfully gave me glad chance
To waltz this oft curious and perpetual dance
Do you understand what my soul has beheld
Or was your dream painted in such differing colors
Sunrises, sunsets and all moments between
Your faces and others who have journeyed with me
Days led to weeks and then months led to years
Through elation and sorrows, bright hopes and shed tears
Seasons became memories and then graciously gave way
To this photograph of hope that I found here today
I wish
I could have
Known you both
Then