On This, The Great Conjunction

In more ways than I can say
I'm with you every day
Like a river, we hoped to flow
But the current seems awfully slow
Yet, take heart, my love, if you'd be so kind
For, no more obstacles shall we find

Thick-in-thatch
Our love may hatch
With annual pics in front of the tree
Something you will take for me
The Christkindl markets of Yule
Becoming our Golden Rule

London Bridge will never fall down
Not as long as I wear my Crown
An equitable lady I cannot always be
Thanks to Humanity's constant cruelty
But you shall forever remain in my heart
If t'were up to me, we'd never part

I miss you so very much
Most especially your touch
Wherever we are in this great big world
I will always wish a different Fate had unfurled
Flaunting my disbelief
Less a lady, more a thief 

But you have stolen from me, too
Your arrival, giving the wrong cue
You seemed deep in love to me
With your eyes stormy like the sea
And I, I felt it...for (only) you
Even in silence, the feeling grew

On the coast of wind-worn Wick
There, you'll find a candlestick
In the brass, there engraved
Our names, and the journey we braved
Love is not for the faint of heart
We both knew that from the start

Still, how different I wish things could be
After all, it was for me you crossed an entire sea(!)
That romance can never be lost
Even if my memory, you've since tossed
I loved you then and I love you still
You were never just a passing thrill

How sad that we chose not to embrace our own Fate
Though, they are many--those who fail to believe in a soulmate
But I have learned my lesson through and through
To you, I'd be infinitely true
As you can clearly see from my art
Evidence of the mark you've left upon heart

The Sun will rise and the Solstice will end
Perhaps taking with it our chance to amend
Those mistakes we both made not long ago
Oh my Darling, it was never for show
You are the great love of my life
Regardless of fair weather or strife

If the year ends without a sound
You will be lost and I will then be found
Wanting you is not the same as need
For, it's not ego I wish to feed
Come home to me, my love
With an olive branch, fly high like God's Dove

On a shimmering Tree we two shall perch
Behind us, a steeple atop the white church
For you I'll buy a ring of gold
And ask you to marry, my heart made bold
Such a dream seems distant...and yet, could be so near
If you were to whisper softly in my ear:

"I loved you then and I love you still,
You were never just a passing thrill."

Tell me, Angel, do you keep the opal near?
A gift from your beloved, the one you hold dear???
Or, have you lost it to forget,
That magical day when we first met?

If you wish, we'll reunite
Even if I have to fly on the wind like a kite
Life is too short
To put off our sport
You must know...your eyes, the last thing I hope to see
When Death finally comes for me

Holding back no longer makes sense
The global shift, our collective recompense
I sometimes think I can hear you say, "Survive.
And, one day soon, we two shall thrive
Together in our thatched-roof nest
Locked in each other's arms, we will find our rest."

Until that happy moment, my olivine love--
Because, together, we fit better than a glove
That is not something one wishes to forget
No matter how many times the Sun may set
But until the arrival of that longed-for day
For you, I shall always-and-forever pray....

#TheGreatConjuction