ETCHED IN STONE

ETCHED IN STONE The marks are recently made, I’m sure And appear like letters etched in stone There’s a message here for me to find I can just make out what’s been carved With a line through it, as if it is halved Perhaps someone’s changed their mind Their expectations of love, now blown But such is the way it goes with amour Maybe rediscovered in years to come Two names, one heart, just says it all If unrequited love had caused the line But to carve it in stone is a lot of fuss It is perhaps, a message for each of us That it takes a long time just to resign And to accept that taste of bitter gall Resolved, with more depths to plumb But these are no more than scratches A knife gets blunt quickly, doing that Hard granite, after all’s said and done It may be why the line cuts the heart Possible love at first sight, at the start And rejection soon after it was begun But underneath it an etched reply sat A reconciling message and it matches