Old Ties

The ties of fourteen years’

Association bind me

Tighter than a knot.

I can’t deny that what

Intrigues me most is how

You manage to prevail

In my affections.  Not

Overt claims but

Seeping tides of sentiment

Which flood my senses.

After all this time you’d think,

Drinking to the lees and

Cup dashed down

That we’d be done,

Instead of which, my dear,

We’ve just begun.