Sonnet: I hold your hands to tell you what I feel

I hold your hands to tell you what I feel
About our lives and all that’s yet to be.
In time I know that fate will turn its wheel
And naught will stay the same for you and me.

But time itself will not delay or slow
The will we have to change and learn to cope.
For us, we need to empathize and know,
With patience, love will grow in depth and scope.

On trust and care we build our path of love.
In winter’s snow and summer’s warm embrace,
Forward, onward with steel reserve we move
Toward our goal, in nature’s ticking pace.
 
Perhaps our feet may drift somewhat apart,
But hand in hand we share a common heart.
 

2009