FOSSIL SPEAK

        without your spark of life
        reluctant though accepting
        I'll regress 
        across our history
        sink back
into the primordial soup
        that spawned this anomaly
        of heartthrob
        failed evolutional experiment 
        torn of romance's big bang
        slowly disappear from sight
        beneath layer upon layer
        of sedentary mud
        my soul to petrify
        over millennia
        until someday
        love's paleontologists
        delicately brush away
        the diamond encrusted shroud
        reassemble this
passion’s skeletal remains
        to scratch their heads
with academic fervor
        theorize what went wrong
        the truth of what we were
could have become
        forever locked
into these bared bones

© 2002 Chris Sorrenti