Love Is Gentle and Fierce

Love is Gentle as a fawn New life in the woods Green as a fern and fierce as a torrential rain It flows like river sweeping you away But kind as a down pillow at the end of a horrific day It walks by rivers and withstands storms It faces down tornados Jumps like a frog Runs like a deer Protects like a lion and hides like a lamb It reflects off of sunlight and glints on the river rocks It walks tall and falls down hard on paths of gravel It is sweet like coffee and a morning muffin but cruel like too much to drink It's light as air and thick as mud It is quicksand and a mountain you climb that touches the sky Love is a rainbow and a flood It's a soft touch and a severe locking of eyes It is a kiss that never happens and passion that will never acquiesce It is promises kept and promises forgotten It is here now and gone sometimes But then it's never gone It is the tide that comes in on a tide that goes out There are a thousand ways that love can meet you as a wave and leave you like a wave A Rose in your hand a rose by any other name that will never smell as sweet as the first time...but will always smell so sweet Even when it's a rose that you cannot touch It is a Rose you will remember forever