The aperture between

From snapshots to a movie screen

and that’s how love can grow

when hope o’er lays our yesterdays

and projects them into dreams.

From winter into spring

and that’s how love can move

into the aperture between

dreams and reality.

But that aperture between

like an unfulfilled sea

rocks the boats, normality

and conformity

until a mind like the shore

stretches comfortably at ease

along the length and breadth

of what it can believe.

And I believe that sea is me

in wilful rock of boats

because screened today within

love’s sure but slow progress

from first sight unto forever.

Do not disturb this woman, please;

the end’s still a mystery!

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