Sonnet 550

When I first touched your hand I cannot tell

For in the mists it lingers with your smile

To resonate much like a soft rung bell

As to when struck or fades, continues still;

And when of time we shared the primal kiss,

Of many since, it seems a drop of rain

That watered so broad fields of endless bliss

Or gilded yet the vast and plumbless main.

So bless sweet time that blurs when it began

There clouding memories of love’s first embrace,

So seems the blush of fervor on the pan

That ever still two souls as one engrace.

It matters not when love first claimed the heart;

It matters most that we shall never part.

Loubert S Suddaby poems