Water lay still beneath the amber dusk
Holding our names in ripples fine as musk
Your laughter stirred the gentle mirrored scene
Drawing my breath toward places bright and green
We carved our hopes upon the drifting tide
Smuggling our futures where the dreams reside
Each whispered wish dissolved into the stream
Yet somehow deepened everything we dreamed
The twilight bowed and offered us its grace
Framing your smile in warm forgiving space
The river carried fragments of our youth
Translating longing into perfect truth
Our names remain within the moving blue
Carved by the hush that flows from me to you
No surge of time can wash that mark away—
Water remembers love beyond decay