Remnants and rags--do you regard such?
the true kiss that impinges upon the brink of time
to be counted as nothing as it seems* too late-
an unwanted and undeserving outcome?

There's the serenest beauty in the waiting
love and truth are never obsolete and sublime
is their calling-- that which went before was but incomplete tasting
the crowning joy and the ecstasy are at the ending--the moment has come!