I enjoyed this. It feels like there's a couple ways this can be understood (I've always felt that good poetry can be taken in different ways depending on who is reading it, and may not match the author's intent, for better or worse).
Sounds like a couple folks that love each other from a distance, but have already committed to marriages they're in and have retreated back to those. In the end, however, when they die, they will be together.
I've always wondered about those 'forgotten' loves in our lives. In the midst of them, you think 'I can't think of any way this could end, we'll be forever', but relationships are never static; they're always getting better or worse. And most of them end, either with a whimper or a bang. It's only the most fortunate of us that get to cling to at least one for years or decades. (Doesn't mean we don't mourn for the ones that are gone, though)
Thanks for the insightful poetry. Makes me think of things long forgotten.
Hey Neg,
I'm glad you found this enjoyable and thought provoking. I'm always amazed at how contests seem to draw the creativity out of me. Why can't I just wake up in the morning and go "I'm going to write something fascinating today?"
There was once a short lived TV series called "Finder of Lost Loves." I think it is a theme that inevitably recurs to many of us from time to time.
I have come to believe that we created persons have a virtually unlimited emotional capacity to love and be loved, but what we lack is time and resources to love in the practical, physical and economic actions implied by that verb.
Eternity is effectively the solution to everything, although the concept presents a perpetual struggle for my imagination to grasp how it will actually play out. I continue to wrestle mightily with the practical problem of imagining how to write fiction with a compelling story arc about absolutely untroubled and beneficent people living in an utterly unsullied environment. It's that problem you were kind enough to discuss with me once on Discord some time ago.
Thanks for your very thoughtful comment. :D
I'd love to hear "the other way" that you might have taken this poem...
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