Memory\'s Pearl.
She had eaten
the proof of amour\'s iridescence,
taken love\'s juice
and emptied its cup to the dregs.
She sweetened by
patience the taste of long distance
and wasted no chance
for passion to break silken bread.
She had embraced
given gold of satisfied closeness,
quenched lonely thirst
so needy hunger invaded no more.
She feasted when
fate made late-laden approaches
and imbibed desire\'s
ripened affection as never before.
She had known
but once the romance of a lifetime
therefore memory\'s
pearl she now wears with a smile.