For My Husband as Our Marriage Ends

Say not that we were failures
That we wed too young or too late
Were too much alike or not enough,
Too set in our ways
Like pink-veined rocks 

Whisper no he or she or they
No other players on these 
Hard courts of love
Save we two survivors 
Admit no legal jargon
To define the fray and frayed
No irreconcilable differences 

Some things must of necessity
Remain a mystery
Even to themselves 

Say rather it was of its time
And let us part as friends
That time now past

But one day well-cherished
Well remembered as passion lit by lightning
When all the world was music