Untitled by Evelyn Sprague - Valentines Writing Competition 3rd Place 2024

You smell so nice

Like clean salt sweat

Soft soap and incense

Sweet scents stuck in your hair

Held there with quiet care 

Then blown like embers through the air

Bearing familiarity and clarity

As I realize the rarity of what we share

A bond that'll carry on through posterity 

Honored generations beyond when we pass into barbarity

They'll not remember our names nor those of our heirs

Not my contrary nature or your affair with despair

All they'll recall is the love we shared 

Because it won't die with us

It'll stay on the wind

The sent of your perfume

The light of my grin

The joy you brought me

The hope we dared 

The kisses I gave you

The life we shared