Saturday Poem

Mineral Animal Vegetable

You're September

I'm July

Can Virgo ruled by Mercury

Pair successfully

With a Moon influenced Crab?

The Chinese say

You are the Horse

And I the Rooster

Does such a match bode well

This being the Year of the Snake?

To the ancient Celts

We are trees

You the Weeping Willow and I the Fir

In what sort of forest

Would it be likely

We'd be happily rooted

Side by side?

I'm of a mind

To shed these trappings

Imposed on us

By the arbitrary numbers

Describing the timing

Of our births

And focus instead

On the miracle

That any two of us

Meet and bond at all