May I ask a favour,

one that might upset you

as it upsets me;

just for one day,

on our anniversary,

do I have to mourn you?

 

Would it be O.K.

that today

on the day we remember

twenty-one years together,

that you allow me to grieve for you

without breaking my heart?

 

Our time was brief,

I knew of you for ten minutes,

before that I had never

heard your name;

yet somehow you have stayed