A Love Story Poem by Chris Zachariou

Our situation was absurd.
Improbable. Impossible even
the voice of reason screamed.
But we knew this from the start.

So we banished the voice.
We were so happy.
Our minds and souls
joined in perfect harmony

and in fingers entwined
we held the universe—
the universe we built with
the audacity of the young.

In our brave new world,
we dared do what others feared.
A world free from all the chains
and all the limits of convention.

And when our lust was sated
we lay in that secret place
where lovers go to dream
and whisper poems to the wind.