LOVELOCKS on Brooklyn Bridge

These emblems of undying love occupied every available place on Brooklyn Bridge. They were due to be cut off by the City Authorities citing danger to the security of the Bridge. Padlocks are often emblazoned, etched scratched or otherwise marked with lovers names and then the key throw in. One day archaelogists might find thousands of fossilised keys in the mud at the bottom of the old dried up river and wonder why ?
I thought there was something really poignant about the act of locking up and leaving your padlock with all the other lovers. I was with my girlfriend at the time and we didn't have a lovelock. (we didn't know about it at the time). We are now happily married with two lovely children so perhaps our lovelock was in our pocket all the time.