Skeletons

Sunlight shimmers
on wet leaf
in the morning.

Life shimmers
on flesh and bone
for a season

Like teenage lovers
wrapped in a tangle of hair
and limbs,
we lie content—
happy to stay
just as we are,
forever—
wishing and hoping
that the moment
will never end.

Outside of time,
drenched in afterglow,
calm
after the passion
of life.