Covered in tree sap with legs intertwined,
Friendship undimmed since the last time we met,
Laughing like lunatics. Decades unwind;
Ours is a force with the strength of a jet.

Life has unrolled like we dreamed it, and yet
Nothing compares to the joy that we find,
Husbands at home, as we crash soaking wet,
Covered in tree sap with legs intertwined.

Letters we sent every day undermined
All of time's efforts to make us forget.
Loving our foals, but we won't leave behind
Friendship undimmed since the last time we met.

Months in advance, how we plan and we fret,
Scheduling triple vacations designed
Carefully. Older, we still don't regret
Laughing like lunatics. Decades unwind.

Out on the porch at the Acres reclined,
Humming a melody, making a bet,
Stories retold keep the legends enshrined:
Ours is a force with the strength of a jet.

Still, there's the call of the new bassinet;
Jobs, obligations, the sweet ties that bind
Can't stop Crusaders! We're always a threat,
Shaking the world from its dull, daily grind,
Covered in tree sap.

Author's Notes:

This one started out as a virelai nouveau, but halfway through, it dawned on me that, to keep strictly to the form, I was gonna need about 30 different words to rhyme with "find." So I did a quick remix, shuffled most of the lines I'd already written into the gentler pattern of the rondeau redouble', and lived happily ever after till the next one.