Tango With Bliss

 

For what is a lover of fleeting duration?

A hummingbird’s hovering sweet adoration

Now here and now gone, a kiss sent to sea

Somehow “Now move on” seems a hollow decree

The wash in your eyes betrayed secret sorrow

The wish to deny the plague of tomorrow’s

Relentless insistence upon its one crime

Against all resistance, this battle with time

You’re right to submit it was over too fast

But you have to admit we had us a blast—

Sensations discovering horizons beyond,

Our passionate loving surprising the dawn…

Should faith in Fate seem a feckless folly

To a placeless space on a trackless trolley

Await with light heart as the reasons emerge

That right from the start our paths would diverge

Neither cultivate pain nor empower the tragic

Rather conjure up flames of conscious white magic

As harmony’s memory does hang in the mist

That bittersweet melody, our tango with bliss