When the love between two people
reaches the speed of light
nothing can make them
trip or tumble,
not even a steep downhill run
careening through brush
hand in hand
cross country
jumping boulders
skipping along fallen logs
leaping the creek
sailing over ditches,
the day turning too soon
into twilight
then darkness
as they reach home,
safe
to realize
a half-century later
how on that particular day
had their feet ever touched the ground
they surely would have fallen.