Padlocks on Sea Cliff Bridge

 

We stopped to freeze some moments
upon this serpentine’s steely pavement

(where a Fay and a John,

a Janet and her Jason,

and hundreds of other couples later on—

locked padlocks to its railing,
and threw the keys into the sea roaring);

  

We stooped to throw a look at the distant horizon,
memories unchained slithering from a time ancient

when we vowed to exchange passkeys

to our otherwise padlocked hearts.

 

-- Wollongong 27/12/2011