When first we met our words with each
Were laced with smile and touch.  Our eyes,
Confessed and broke at the closing café
And fused in joy and salt, opened up
With long, arresting arms at our sides.

You brought me to your toppled room,
I counted a number of worn, weary 
Books, various anthologies, travelogues 
And philosophers, a few fierce Poets,
Looking on, strategies for study, 
All assembled, with great measure,
It was an alternate version of my own
Battle ground library.  Then, I was yours 
But you were never mine.

                                           Your stone, 
Walled spirit encroached upon me 
And I was unset to siege at the base 
Of your winding turret and waged 
With you a fortnight of five full years
When you rushed forth on your crusades
You left me, flung, far from the holy lands.