Spiral

Another year, my love, has come and gone
A spiral etched across celestial seas.
A decade now, not past, but lived along
A thirty billion mile arc that we’ve

Traced out like dancers perched upon a wire
Strung across a darkened, starlit stage.
The grace and wit of steps I so admire,
You pirouette through spaces I can’t gauge.

Each sun a pinprick orb that lights your way
A shadowless advance to future’s shore.
The business then of life is only play;
Our ten-year dance a prelude still to more.

The core of life sails on, a void swept through;
But anchoring my spiraled dance is you.