Anniversary

On the occasion of our wedding anniversary in the year of the waning gibbous moon

Did you ever imagine us growing old together? 

Our edges frayed 

so far from youth 

the way we were

is almost two other people

And here we are 

grown together like saguaro and palo verde

we are the centuries 

shorn up by loose soil 

You and me

Inextricable 

Now I understand why the ancients

see people in nature

faces in rocks

beings in the star patterns

Over the eons of being united, we become what we were not

That is, one for all time 

For Robert