you were young, i was reckless to a fault
the nights I've spent in amber losing count
with fractal detail, smoothness grinds to halt
regrets to meet a blessing tantamount

the beauty in your grace and loving grin
a warmth as gentle as a thousand suns
that scorch me with abandon from within
to live it all, if all were only once

an arrow of pure Venus' pointed child
uncompromising and deliberate
makes no mistakes, if all be fair but wild
we only answer to opinion's fate

and to this fate, the fools will second guess
the doubters bound to criticize and whine
but true believers only answer yes
to what was sanctioned by the gods divine

the doubter in my past has met refute
a virus conquered by old T-cells wise
obtuse i may have met to your acute
but take me now, you'll right me through revise

red arrows shift through lightyears out to come
I needn't second guess a second time
embrace me through the aether till I'm numb
with nothing left but us, rejoined, sublime