The Castaways

The Castaways

A saying in the search for gold
Was "Gold is where you find it":
That Nature has chaotic rules
Or none at all to bind it.
But things have turned out differently
Though no one would have dreamed as much,
For who could dream that this would be?
That these two mine walls which I see
And reaching widely I can touch
Were once two drifting castaways
From island arc and ocean floor;
That Friday-like and Crusoe-like
They washed upon our western shore
To find there other castaways
And with them form a new domain
Where there had been no land before,

And gold, which seemed a random thing
Scattered by some power above,
Is really golden filigree
That binds two strangers caught by love.