By Isolde
Date: 18 April 1999

Tasting Paradise

If we can't have it all,
Would just a taste suffice?
Or would remembered sweetness seem
Not worth the final price.

Would what we have seem pale
Once we saw brighter hue?
Would that one moment's vibrancy
Our future joy reduce?

Would hours brief together,
Sustain us all our lives?
Or would we be that much the worse
For tasting paradise.