She led the way as he wished
into the wooded hollow with
the cold wind saying no above them
disapproval in the barren crowns
they stumbled over stones
hidden in the leaf mat ferns
flattened by the winter just past
on ground never tilled they ran
down the slope branches vines
pulling at their clothes they didn't care
if they fell they had each other then
they did and they didn't she was young with
everything to live for she did as he wished
they did and they didn't and she did.
