The Return Poem by Kevin Wyndham Heard

Beneath how many skies
Have I lain here with thee
In times long forsaken
By our history?
Beneath how many stars
Have I parted your lips
And stolen sweet kisses
As our moons did eclipse?

Your eyes shining brightly
As times many before
Tell of love long forgotten
Now recalled to the fore
A flame there still burning
Emotion unbound
A loss and a yearning
A remembered love found

Never counting the hours
Never counting the cost
Never counting the years
Nor the centuries lost
Through Aeons of searching
In tragedy’s wake
Two paths now converging
To love and forsake

And how many books written
Tell the tales of our woe
Of castles that crumbled
And burned kingdoms laid low?
Thence returned to the stars
To the heavens once more
As we rode to Olympus
All her gods to implore

In Jove’s greater sway
Lesser orbits collide
To earth’s embrace falling
Therein love to abide
Tho’ oceans lie ‘tween us
The closer we are
A sister of Venus
And her distant star…