Open Letter to a Pair of Hearts: (correct video, with apologies!)

Open letter to a pair of hearts

Whatever you do you two: play

play like kittens in the rays of the sun on a warm

day in May; by the water-butt you bring

the watering jug you use

to bring up all your plants/ your herbs legumes and veg

whatever you do elsewise you must play

with the words that you use

in the dance

as you run round the house chasing cats

affirmative as Mayflies

in your still ethereal dresses and kilts clinging to

your hard vows

to the trees that you’ll use to make swings

for what comes

the little stomp of feet that we all heard

so fondly on a day

a day to remind us all of life, in its little heights

its unignorable issue

let you both be there to reach for the convenient lights

that sparkle on the edge of the words

you will use so carefully some days

but so cavalierly on others

let those smiles be fixed forever in the solid air

as you remember the sound

of the whoops and whistles in the crowd

the love and the approval of so many

types from auditor to poet

to family, modest proud

remember the day for its play be it slide or walkway

that leads to a bridge in the rain

on a doubled-down day

now you are two you will never be lonely

alone you will not be again

ao song as love reigns

as long as words stay hovering on this day

so long as you play

whatever you do you will stay, close as blades of cool grass

on a sprinkling day of goodwill, welcome and joy

your vows marked on the trickling sound

on the air and unshakeable ground

to be echoed in eternity