Loving Dotage

We've come a long way together.
Though memory helpfully
dredges up reminiscences of
our early times together as a
youthful adventure of attraction
and the discovery of companionship
the years have taken us from the
intimacy of a pair of independent
psyches to the reality of integral
dependency. Still individuals
but the mortar of matrimony
experience and children now long
grown has resulted in each
presenting a mirror image of
the other. That reflection
recognizes the features of the
originals still resident in the
personage of the present, as 
though time and the space allotted
slid us into an arcane time-warp
taking us from there to here. The
ongoing declarations of love
coursing through our days and nights
only slightly altered by the prompts
each gives the other lest immediate
memory fails, even as authentic
remembrance pulsates with life.