One Man One Woman Together Poem by Shirley Your Speaker Smith

Plane crash
Nothing but mountains
Nothing but snow
Nothing but cold
One man One woman together

Walk or lay down to die
She cannot walk on her own
She lends close into him
She can feel his heart beat
He holds her upright
One man One woman together

She stands still he scouts ahead
He yells I've found a cabin
He hears the ice crack
He rushes to the spot
She has fallen through thin ice
Her life he saves
Cabin becomes a hospital
One man One woman together

Their bond yields way to more
Their eyes speak
Their voices do not
Time to leave the cabin
She says leave me I will slow you down
He tries but cannot
One man One woman together

He fashions a stretcher and drags her through the snow
Nearing the floor of the mountain he leaves her to rest and proceeded through the trees and finds a logging camp just yards away

She hears his scream and she fights to free herself from the stretcher
She reaches him to find he stepped on a bear trap

Her pain could not stop her
She managed to reach the road and flag down a logging truck
One man One woman together

They were hospitalized and went back to their previous lives
Is their relationship real or only a snowy mountain top survival experience
Love answered
One man One woman together

Inspiration-movie The Mountain Between Us - Idris Elba and Kate Winslet

© December 6,2018