Fits of Passion

Fits of Passion Fits of passion Limbs reaching wrapping around Two, three hold as it were Each other as lovers Through decades of growth And change of girth As we walk below Two earthly lovers year upon year Our time and affections shared Mirrors revealing as our faces drift As songbirds live and die As we play in bed Evolving to quiet affection Hand holding our new passion Beneath the two trees Now in the shadow of the others With new lovers walking by Looking up and seeing themselves Wrapped in aging arms Swaying in the wind Leaves falling in a colored rain Before the winter and the leaving of lovers too old to return. Roe August 2019