One Life To Share Poem by Herbert Nehrlich

They knew that afternoon that they would be
down in the foothills of the snow-capped peaks.
Placed there by providence and not by happy choice.
They'd wear their grubbies though below their ruddy cheeks
and listen carefully now to their inner voice.
Equipped to climb are few yet many dare to try
there is such promise in the summit's fantasy,
but there they stood in thought and let their time go by
until the sun went home in sadness for their plight.
She sighed and took his face, her hands now dark from frost
we need to move my LOVE, for lonely be our night
and then they knew that they could be forever lost .
They kissed to warm their frozen lips and then their tongues
exploring all familiar places from the past
a glacial wind reached off the mountain, for their lungs
the sound of avalanches chased another blast.
He felt her knee against resistance near his thighs
and tightened arms around her quickly though with care
she crushed him harder and she whispered 'No Good-Byes'
and they knew then that there would be one life to share.