Then and Now

Gone now the storm, we foundered on the shoreline Two broken souls never met in a before time Similar though distant we had spent our lives apart You, in your beautiful, solitary world and me in unhappy mine What conjures fate – a Greater Hand than we know or can conceive? ‘Tis dealt this deck, and shuffled pretty well Do we then need to make sense of its randomness? Unpick its mysteries, if you will? A deck can be shuffled twice or thrice before we find our suit Yet we are for pairing, all of us, we would find a soul to mate Less we live a life unentwined, Where a single heart has a single beat Or disentwined - if mental anguish prevails - if the bond is too weak, Or reentwined, as did find the tendrils from our lost souls and our hearts How quickly they did grow in strength and bore fruits despite the season We did not need a reason to explain what just union occurred Cemented forever in the footprint of this world.