Love's last seasons...

Of love, what remains when time has removed...
   What the body desired
      and Spring once inspired?
   When days yet to find
      lag days left behind?
   Of love, what will last
      once its Summer has passed?
Will love then deny what love once had proved?

If love was then love, that love time will save.
   Love that Fall cannot steal,
     nor Winter repeal.
   For the true lover's heart
     will not let it depart.
   It will not be removed
     but then even more proved...
Till the lover's tears fall on a snow-covered grave.

Joseph Weilenbeck 2018