You and I

The days we taught ourselves together
lie laughing, windswept amongst the heather,
so proud and strong of our founded path
we face it all with loves firm grasp.
 
Our hush can calm all trembling hands,  
hold still the coals on burning sand.  
Despite the light that's only found  
on nights when oceans surely drown,  
 
it tumbles out from spoken tongues  
a song with all its promise made  
and words that find themselves a way  
to say such tender thoughts each day.  
 
And so when silence comes to fall,  
a seated bond were no voice calls.  
Then what of love should this poet speak  
if not of soft-flushed reddened cheeks.