Bowl

Amanda greets the world with graceful style She calmly chats with shoppers in the store The neighbour she encounters in the aisle Enveloped in her charm, feels intimate Why has no suitor fallen for her smile There, Delver fidgets, countenance intense Incessant curiosity at work Unfolding mysteries with common sense When greeted, he responds with courtesy While quirky thoughts are withheld in defence Between us, the connection's taut Pulled surface of a brim full bowl Poised upon continent's divide What qualm is clutching at my speech today Before, it would be easy to converse His thoughts erupt in breathtaking array When teased or sparked, his posture turned averse While eyes and gestures, keen interest betray Despite sparse history, I know her well The way she hones in on her line of thought Instinctively pursues, then slows to dwell In soft silence, as though cradling a egg Then sudden laughs with new-hatched thoughts to tell Between us, the connection's taut Pulled surface of a brim full bowl Poised upon continent's divide Each fraught word shivers on its skin Hatched ripples mesh, let trickles slip Consequently, balance totters, shifts Amanda, now your garden's looking fine Inspired. You set to work for no reward Reintroduced the ancestral design Convincingly. It thrives, and so restored It breathes the spirit of an ancient time And Delver, have you had your work breakthrough I see your brow is less furrowed of late When you return to shore, and cycle through The streets, it seems you're burdened with less weight You've worked so hard, success is overdue Between us, the connection's taut Pulled surface of a brim full bowl Poised upon continent's divide Each fraught word shivers on its skin Hatched ripples mesh, let trickles slip Consequently, balance totters, shifts Launching us irrevocably To cascade down a lifelong course Boundaries between ourselves dissolved