Tayla Vannelli
Rain doesn’t discriminate
Between rivers and bridges
Drops trickle down the fences
Slipping between iron chains
Shaped like diamonds
Metal bonds symbolizing forever
Begin to rust and decay
Names and dates shrouded
Their infinite love
Now illegible to the world
Years later, their forever is found
A passerby stops to gaze
At the brown rotting lock
Held strong to a “dry” bridge
Dripping with rainwater
The lock shoved between
Countless memorials to loves long lost