Lifetime Mates

The pair arrived in delicate plumes soft as a breeze

Dancing synchronized as their hearts fuse together on nature’s ballroom.

Calling one another with devotion as the sun’s rays bleed.

Lovers so captivating their gaze devours the hunger of the eyes that bloom.

Yet rough winds ruffle the idyllic soulmates in bleak early winter

As offspring fail to thrive in deserted ponds of marriage.

Every quiet moment foreshadows deathful december.

A single droplet louder than their calls, yet they persist on what remains to cherish.

As they strive to find harmony in their final courtship.

And the pond roars fiercely against divorce

Now that one has left to a somber never returning trip.

As the other stays melancholic on the still ponds course.

The heavens cry out and question why a pair so rare,

Cannot have the forever of a life to share.