Ageless Love

We watched the iron tubes
floating slowly up the Thames 
giant parts on a freight barge
I remember him saying
look, that’s the eye
on its way to its resting place on the south bank 

we had no idea then
Just what we were witnessing?
we were too busy kissing and frolicking 
of course, as young lovers do
sunday’s were magical back then
 
and now?
 
more than twenty years have passed 
when I see the enormous London Eye
from the plane descending into my darling Heathrow
flying close to all the famous landmarks 
and the captain announces
 “ Ladies and Gentlemen on your right you can see the eye”
especially when it’s daylight and the sky is clear blue

it reminds me of my youth
and my innocence and those first kisses 
that will always be within my heart 
hidden in a secret box of
ageless love.