Love in words, 
Laid on paper, 
Dying as snared rabbits, 
Struggling and losing life, 
As they fall from the mind.

The truest meaning hidden
Behind a reality, 
Of black and white,
And the starkness of lives,
Facing the mundane.

Searching for truer words,
Each time,
To express a love, 
Greater than earthly words,  
Can convey.  

Searching for fleeting thoughts, 
Like fireflies flashing, 
In an early darkness.
Captured for the jar,
To behold with wonder! 

Searching for words, 
Unique as snowflakes, 
Enough needed, 
For a glacier, 
To fill the valley void.  

Searching for meaning,
In three decades of time,
Lived apart and together.
Like torrents of rivers,
Joined in the sea!

A letter and a love 
that holds fast,
And will last, 
And last, and last,
Until words of heaven come! 

© 2016 Jim Davis