Poetry: Forever Love

I can’t promise to love you forever,

but I will as long as we’re together.

What if, in the next life,

I’m a cat and you’re a dog?

I could be a princess and you a frog,

(in which case, that could do the job…)

But what if you’re the night and I’m the day?

You know what they say,

“Like strangers who pass in the night.”

It wouldn’t be right.

My Sun would still always shine for you,

with sky to match my mood, so blue.

Until we’d meet in an eclipse

and then we’d get a fleeting glimpse

of our past life and what had been…

Only to have to part and remain unseen,

sitting sadly at either side of the world,

watching as other lover’s lives unfurled.

Even then you’d be my only love.

If I was below and you were above.

If I was left and you were right.

Cat and dog, (although we’d fight…).

Princess and frog, chalk and cheese.

If I were wasps and you were bees…

No matter what, this much is true;

whether together or far from you,

whether I’m stupid and whether you’re clever,

I promise with all my heart,

I will love you forever.

Victoria Collins