Soulmates

Prompt Words: anticipation, chocolate, flowers, future, violin, ring, clumsy, disaster.

Sweet, fragrant, and dark
chocolate's perfume ascends
from a Valentine-shaped box.

Violin music
carries the scent of roses--
love's scarlet flower--
across the light-years of space and time
to enliven the future
with romance.

Two lovers,
clumsy at their first meeting,
walk hand-in-hand
along a moonlit beach,
as waves wash across their feet.

One gives the other
a ring:
symbolizing eternal love.

Soulmates
their anticipation
of happiness rises.

No disaster
can separate them
for long,
they are destined to roam
the universe
as one inseparable entity.

Poet's Note: ▶︎

Line Count: 26
Form: Free verse
Prompt Words: anticipation, chocolate, flowers, future, violin, ring, clumsy, disaster.
Written For: "Stormy's poetry newsletter & contest" 
Deadline: February 23, 2019
Submitted to "Senior Center Forum"  February 2023.