Remembering back some thirty or so years

When life was full of promise and so few tears

As pictures of the two of us dancing in the sea

Fills my mind with wonder, then it was you & me



And we were so young and filled with much love

For each other, as we played about under sun above

Splashing each other in the quite early morning light

And then play-wrestling as we became one, so bright



As salt-water lapped at us from behind both our backs

And the complete merge we made of bodies did lack

For no matter how hard we tried to keep as one in waves

The sea kept washing over us, pushing us apart, so brave



Were we, to think the act could be quite so easily done 

In water which eased between us - making us not one

But two lively souls reaching out to each other to hold

The beauty which was ours - as we tried to be so bold



So then, we gave up finally and ran into bungalow

And there - upon bed - ravaging each other below

The window which looked out onto the cobbled road

Until you told me to stop, for a face peered in at the show



And so I did, but - by the time I had looked up to see

Whoever it was had gone - so we went and had tea

Smiling at each other over our eggs and sausage links

That knowing look we each had filled with those winks.



Christopher W. Thomas

1:50pm Tuesday 12/30/97