For my wife, my Silke Shining in the Sky, as our two milestone birthdays come with fragile hands

Transcendental Sonnet #1150:
With Fragile Hands

for Silke

The hands so many times around the clock
The moon so many times around the earth
The earth so many times around the sun

The calendar completed and begun
Again through pain as two hearts knock unlock
To one another in this second birth
Of ours as hours bloom into months the years
Prove our love and move above as below

As I have heard your silver laughter ring
And I have heard you weeping iron tears
The good the bad the mad the sad the flow
Of life for two survivors of this place

The clock embarrassed brushes from its face
The flying sands of time with fragile hands



+Steven Curtis Lance

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