We swore we would love each other forever. (Nope.)

It took forever to get the mess straightened out. (About a year and a half.)

We gave our rescue pooch a forever home. (1998 to 2009.)

And there were so many other forevers…

But, vast and expansive as the Universe is,

Even black holes evaporate

Far shy of Forever.

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But Forever does exist

In what we have already done.

I made a tuna sandwich (for breakfast! I was hungry!) about six this morning.

And that space/time/appetite event

Will always have happened. It is on the forever record.

I had oatmeal but no milk. I’ll get some milk today

And that event, too, will be eternal.

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A few more forevers is all I ask,

A few more moments seeing someone I might love,

A satisfying session at the potter’s wheel,

A dalliance or five with infinite possibility

Revealed in some sweetly dreamful nights.

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Diamonds are less forever to me

Than cups of coffee

Or uncontrollable laughter bubbling up.

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You,

Yes, you,

Do not know how much

The connection you are making by reading or hearing what I say now

Is enriching my life;

Hey, neither do I,

Because I do not know which you is You

But all of you help,

And I am glad

We are forging our forevers

Together!