Endless Love ?

That fires
that brought them together years ago,
has it gone diminished ?

Years ago,
they were young.
Of the wild things they do together,
of making wild love in foreign lands,
and the burning urges and desires
to be closer to each other,
and to be ONE.
To explore, experience, and share
life together....

Now,
they still share the same bed.
But, separated by the invisible
line drawn by habitual familiarity.
Silently acknowledging each other presence,
She read her magazine, and he read his book,
on their own side of the bed.
Slowly dozing off to their own separate world.

Familiarity breeds strange apartness ?
The visible closeness of yesteryears
slowly inched away by invincible bonds.
Silently apart, yet serenely close together.

This odd couple,
their youth had passed them by.
They have grown old together.
But,
death will do them part......