She turned her back, walked away
Her longing visible, reaching him
Her heart splintered, fell to the ground
With each step, piece by piece
He would have gathered them to him, his longing visible
But the face of commitment stared into his heart....
He let her go

The needing envelops, drowning him to the ground
Shards of her heart graze his skin...sharp
She fights keeping her direction, never turning
The ground becomes closer, it breaks her movement
She reaches out to steady herself, the lamp light
Shining on her tears, staining her face; half lit

It cannot pierce her dark heart
The light only to deliver the wound
Her path of pain reaches her and ….steadied
She touches sorrow, cannot bear this ache and turns
He has already seen her, moving, reaching, entwining
They are locked in their love in this moment
To last their lifetime

Found myself centred around this river
As if it were my life, its shallows deepening
Into falling curves and rocky
Foundation, yet cluttered in part
With stagnating ****, at other times
Flowing freely and softly engaging me
Without its steaming torrents.

The waterfall thinks it can engulf me and
I consider it at times denying it identity
But sometimes it speaks loudly and refuses
To whisper....’And so you’re there’ I say, and here
Its raging response tumbling me into depths
Out of my control..... or so it thinks.

I emerge for air and breathe in deeply
To sustain me, for when I speak
It is with something resembling coherence
To blag me time from the place of harm
Where it dips sharply and crashes onto slithers
Of icy uncertainty, I begin to wipe my brow clean.

Releasing me from its fooling ways preventing the air
Being squelched from me; take it easy with me
My mind desires you to behave and let me be
Don’t fool me into calm currents only to be tossed
Amongst the white watery crash of boulders rounding
Beneath me, sharp shards covered by your caressing hands
That persuades my innocent eyes to close
To the raging force of veiled kindness

I can remember the ripples of softness that would
Cover my palm with coolness
That dappled in sunlight, reflecting my face
Asking me to admire the stillness
And I believed in the sereneness of the ebb and flow
That sheltered me in fineness with absorbent lining
Reminding me of life absent to the steep slant
Towards the shelled out wreck of my world...burnt out.