romantic love doesn’t appear to last
breakups and divorces
clearly attest to that
it seems temporary even in a marriage
of many decades after
when one of the spouses
passes away and love
appears done
the till death do
us part
in some cases the surviving spouse
marries someone else
and revived romantic love
becomes temporary once again
when one of them dies
but it may not be temporary
when in deathbed visions
a surviving spouse
sees the deceased spouse
in a vision
when the surviving spouse
is dying
as if the spouses are
joined together again
in the afterlife
as if romantic love might
be permanent
beyond this life
as if deathbed visions
possibly are proof
that romantic love lasts
bob boyd