This Ring of Ours--By James Keane--United States

This Ring of Ours

that I wear everywhere
could slip from my finger
at the slightest pull. What
keeps it in place

is my love for you. May love
ever brighten your face.
Your love for me
I wear everywhere

for everyone to see. May it
radiate from me
at the slightest pull.
May it stay forever

in place, embraced
everywhere
by my love for you.

And anchored in love
for as long as we live

with this ring of ours.

(Previously published in Verse-Virtual)

James Keane lives in northern New Jersey USA with his wife and son and a menagerie of merry pets. In 2013, his first poetry chapbook, What Comes Next, was published by Finishing Line Press. His poems have appeared recently in the Indiana Voice Journal, Verse-Virtual, The Bond Street Review, the Wilderness House Literary Review, the Tipton Poetry Journal, the Blue Monday Review, the Firewords Quarterly, the  East Coast Literary Review, and Contemporary American Voices. In addition, he still can’t cook to save his life.