Years

A decade, not long enough to search

Add six years and healing to your hurts

Put distance between you and the friend

Insistent that that's that to the end

At one glance, just thinking of those times

Of night lives, partnering in those crimes

Another, conversations matter

Of  dreams, of lives, of hearts that shattered

Apart, away, admitting nothing

Aloof, abreast, not seeking something

The years that came and the years that went

They were years in isolation spent

Until in flight and trips reunite

An absent flame was there to ignite

And spark to spark to trigger and more

The journeys taken opened a door

So, step by step, with bated pacing

From friend to more, with hesitating

With careful strokes, organic progress

A heart revealed; a lover's ingress

And now we're here expecting something

Beyond ourselves, anticipating

A day, a step, adventure looming

A seed is sown; forever blooming