TWENTY AND NOT COUNTING

For Sam and Dawn

Why bother at all with numbers?

Twenty or fifty years will seem

in time like one whole day

too brief to be believed.

What is the past except

what happened once to let

what’s happening happen?

No more than that.

For those

who love, the sum of one

plus one is always one,

and time becomes irrelevant.

What’s next is up to God.

Today for you the sum

of one plus one still stays

at one plus Sam, Anna and Sarah.

You love each other near,

and yet the times when you’re

together seem to pass

so quickly even when you make

the time.

You want those moments

never to be over.

That’s all

that matters now.

Or ever.

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