As It Was
We spent all our yesterdays in love of love
driving up to toll booths and tossing out coin
to cross on chain linked stay cabled bridges,
shackles over Severn and now Severn’s two,
chucked surplus change into change buckets,
well, there should be change, change is good,
but now here I am arrived and here I'll shiver
lost looking above love’s bottomless river
yours forevermore - for you said that once
I think - told to most of what was left of him.
Your yearning for as it was but what was it
that once was swept sleep’s creeping caves
of sandy rust, left streaky dust on our faces
of slumped slumbered spans, came too late
to find passage is free at barred toll gates.
You clutched us then but can no longer hold,
drove all this way to find a blasted shelterbelt
just echoed the fragments of a feeling you felt
tossed back among maps in my box of gloves.
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