Years have shifted
and worn
that once tightly
honed connection
we shared.
Time has moved
that intimate embrace
to a lesser hold,
one peripheral,
one now
reluctant
but always deferential.
What was once
signified
as hand-to-hand
is now
represented in
looks without completion
and half-smiles
that say,
in words
yet to be spoken:
“It’s over.”
22/9/2015