and they wished for 'forever'...

“The Kiss” Auguste Rodin, 1889

“Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;

then to that twenty, add a hundred more:

a thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,

to make that thousand up a million.

Treble that million, and when that is done,

let’s kiss afresh, as when we first begun.”

~ Robert Herrick ~

***

In the span of a heartbeat

our past and future met

dancing circles around the stars

for the universe to behold

we became the reason

that time dared not exist

while sun and moon promised

to always come out when we kissed

‘forever’ was a lullaby

whispered on the breeze

its meaning held as lovers meld

and hearts and souls unite

and we will look back

to a hundred years ago

to the first kiss, and the tenth kiss

and the kiss where we lost control

to idyllic sighs and all love implies

we’ll think “those were the days”

but in the span of a second heartbeat

our future again unfolds.

© Dahlia Ramone, August 28, 2015

This was written for Blogophilia Week 27.8

Topic: Those were the days

Bonus Points:

(Hard, 2 pts) Incorporate a quote or line from Poet Robert Herrick

(Easy, 1 pt) Use the words “remote control” (I didn’t)