Member Poem

We are enmeshed together, you and I,
our roots and branches coil and intertwine.
So do not say that futile word, goodbye

as if these knots were easy to untie.
Your threads cannot be unpicked from mine:
we are enmeshed together, you and I.

Do you forget, or worse, do you defy
the vow we made that binds us for all time?
Do not say that faithless word, goodbye.

This tapestry of love we crafted, why
would you destroy what touched on the sublime?
We are enmeshed together, you and I:

two such as us, if torn apart, must die
or shamble on in pitiful decline.
Do not pronounce that fatal word, goodbye.

All this has been for nothing: in your eye
I see the web beginning to unwind.
We were enmeshed together, you and I;
go now, spare me that final word, goodbye.