The Loving Months
Are May & June
the only months
love can live
or can it be as
oxidized silver...
Drawn out from
a drawer,
cleaned, buffed
to a new brilliance?
Can this happen
for an old love
whose fire lies cold?
Or is it best to leave
old, cold ashes
resting undisturbed
as the dead?
bentfeather
Coryright © 2002
