How You Returned with the Robins' Eggs

How You Returned with the Robins' Eggs

by Michael R. Burch

 

for Vicky

 

Yesterday I saw you

as the snow flurries died, 

spent winds becalmed.

When I saw your solemn face

alone in the crowd, 

I felt my heart, so long embalmed, 

begin to beat aloud.

 

Was it another winter, 

another day like this? 

Was it so long ago? 

Where you the rose-cheeked girl

who slapped my face, then stole a kiss? 

Was the sky this gray with snow, 

my heart so all a-whirl? 

 

How is it in one moment

it was twenty years ago, 

lost worlds remade anew? 

When your eyes met mine, I knew

you felt it too, as though

we heard the robin's song

and the sky was turning blue.
 

Keywords/Tags: reunion, reconnecting, rekindling, love, friendship, attraction, desire, kiss, winter, spring, hope, resurrection, happiness, joy, reconciliation, mature love