One last deep breath

One last deep breath

Before you cut away the foil
Off the wine bottle that ends at your wrist,
And before the rich blood flows uncorked:

Relive in your mind that spring day
When Love was in the air, and on the new grass
You laid open the book of your heart!

It was a perfect start.

Stay there awhile. Stray not
Into memories of when your lover
Left footprints upon its pages.