Love Was a Beast I Couldn’t Tame

A Poem

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

you called to me
like water upward,
rising through the cracks
in the barren earth

saving you meant a kind
of retribution free of chains,
the way of a life returned
to the bliss of what once was

the seasons could shift,
storms could rule the sky,
and seas might sink low —
but still I would love you

you sang to my deepest
hollow spaces, those holes
in my steadily healing heart,
and I had faith you were mine

floods may wash away
the ticking seconds of time
until the clock stands still,
but we won’t be trapped

hate and love, peace and war,
the babe and the crone,
births and weddings and graves —
the world is a trial in opposing forces

you called to me
and I answered your plea
and then our answers
spun the earth off its axis