L-Oceans Apart

A box of dust-lidded memories
throws a sliver of the past
into my unsuspecting gaze.

And suddenly yesterday
shelters in a rainy cafe
built for two.
Steam breathed windows
cloud in our laughter
as Glasgow drowns
and a white-lined
waitress drifts by.

After the shower
with our souls scorched,
invulnerable
I breath in
the depths of you.

A shapeless form
on the floor
of silent seas.
And I see you
so clearly
through the years
and the legends of memory.

I am suddenly old
it is now and here
in a crumpled piece of cardboard
time is an ocean
frozen
rigid in black and white