eyes open wide at sunrise,
i’m pondering a metaphor
for love
to paint a poem of words
of the two of us in couplet
yet apart
today between the lines
you will teach chess to
the school children
today among minutiae
i will savour our
reinvention
let this stanza of our lives
speak to beauty in its rhythm
and its rhyme
let passion write the verse
twin souls in gentle tandem
through the hours
tonight, reverie abandoned
i’ll bathe in quiet
ceremony
tonight, your page bookmarked
you’ll read me as i want
to be
you whisper my name jennifer
i think i’ve found the metaphor
in you
