On A Wedding Anniversary

Portrait of Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas 1914–1953

The sky is torn across This ragged anniversary of two Who moved for three years in tune Down the long walks of their vows.

Now their love lies a loss And Love and his patients roar on a chain; From every tune or crater Carrying cloud, Death strikes their house.

Too late in the wrong rain They come together whom their love parted: The windows pour into their heart And the doors burn in their brain.

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