May To June Poem by Vihanga Perera

We prolong the inevitable
Ending to whatever memories we gathered,
Whatever tension we lived through,
Hesitant in our words, undecided in our moves,
Through the month of May, to the break of June.

Yes - We lost that moment in which
We could have risked it all and
Pulled down everything we had for ourselves built
In all those years that didn't matter shorn,
And started it all again, discarding that guilt.

And now, we prolong the guilt of
Not having drawn each other in that
Thin moment in time where for such lovemaking
Life looks the other way, making all else irrelevant,
Where you could have known the world in her warm, encasing arms.