My Very Soul

I did now know him when
he was seven and so was I, but
seven years later fate introduced
us and our lives became
irretrievably intertwined.
Dame Fortune smiled her
irresistible invitation to the
future. In that year he was seven
a photo was taken of a grinning
young boy. That time-capsule
resides as a treasured memory
in our first album of memories
alongside those of us together
at age fourteen followed by
many others including we two
at twenty-six parents of three
infants, embracing our
duality in the bonds of love.
It is now seventy years since
that snap was taken of the
grinning boy, who now and
again treats me to an older
but still-vibrant version of
the original, gladdening
my heart and very soul.