The Sum of it All

Poetic Bloomings Picture Prompt: shadows Dancing on a Wall

Somehow we knew

Even as we held each other

And danced that final dance

That it was good-bye

Forever

Even as life insisted on broadening

The past

And even as hope persisted

In holding its memory fast

We knew the sum of it all

and the best we can recall

are two

vague

youthful

shadows

dancing on a wall

J~