in one embrace

[fledgist]

 so much is meant but carried in each head

is other freight the which no one could lift

without some aid to take us cross the rift

that separates our bodies that's the dread

that strikes all of a sudden with a red

intensity that's hot as well as swift

but gives way fortunately to your gift

and the great sweetness of all that you've said

time's not enough for all the forms of play

nor for the music that love can require

of us but life goes by at such a pace

clip that years compress into just one day

while we are still warmed by the same fire

and held together in the same embrace