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