The moment in the arbour where the rain beat,
The moment in the draughty church at smokefall
Be remembered; involved with past and future.
Only through time time is conquered.

Between then and now when we were not with each other how
Did our beings bend: symmetrically commensurately was there rough parity
Or do you merely continue in the same way before now and forever
My fullest self failing to affect even the slightest oblique?