Happy Anniversary!

After many years

Pleasure is a golden hillside,

Passionate and still.

Your bedrooms and your hands are free,

After unshed tears;

Now much of life is tucked away,

No longer touched by will.

In your hearts a wilderness,

Vast and undisturbed,

Empty of all sentiments

Renews the moment’s glory.

So may years of tenderness,

Also sung unheard,

Radiant beyond all sense

Yet tell love’s ancient story.