Accidental Rendezvous

Accidental Rendezvous

On a Dali afternoon, the sun oozing across the sky
I turned into a snake and you, a starfish.
We melted down to the beach for one last time
To ponder – to relive the early sunbathing days.

We recreated all the early years –
Silence and contentment and unsaid sentences
Whilst the retreating waves cooled out toes.

We tried one last time to see where it all went astray –
Each reciting out unwritten soliloquies
Till that one last line we always agreed upon –
Before we parted – “You wouldn’t understand”.

first published in "KOAN" Literary Magazine from Paragon Press