B is for Aging Fruit

Ageing Fruit

Placed together
different fruits
I was fresh and
privileged to witness
your graceful ascent to
maturity

As cracks appeared
your heart
disclosed it's sweet
ripe beauty to me
with passion
undiminished

These twenty years
have moulded us
into a single pear
no one can devour
we are consumed
by each other

Dave Randall?
March 2000