You can't remember, dearest <br /> <br />For your memory fades too fast, <br /> <br />The beginning of our loving <br /> <br />In the warm and foggy past. <br /> <br /> <br />When vapor from the tepid sea <br /> <br />Hung ever in the air, <br /> <br />And rivulets of pinkish mud <br /> <br />Went trickling past us there. <br /> <br /> <br />No, you can't remember even <br /> <br />Of the later lukewarm time <br /> <br />When you and I were wigglers, <br /> <br />Wiggling in the pale gray slime. <br /> <br /> <br />When our mouths were all our reason <br /> <br />And our bellies all our soul, <br /> <br />When we bred and died and rotted, <br /> <br />By the billion on the shoal. <br /> <br /> <br />Yet for ever and forever, <br /> <br />As the cooling waters flow <br /> <br />Past the green of long dead coal fields <br /> <br />Past the continents of snow. <br /> <br /> <br />Yes, forever and as truly <br /> <br />As the waters changeless are, <br /> <br />Have I fought for, sought and found thee <br /> <br />As tonight beneath the star. <br /> <br /> <br />Ever fearing, ever hoping <br /> <br />Ever winning thee at last, <br /> <br />But to lose thee to regain thee, <br /> <br />In the present from the past.<br /><br />General George S Patton Jnr<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wigglers/
