Elemental Lover
(from The John Poems)
My lover is the wind
One moment sighing a gentle caress,
The next, a hardened batterer
I cannot stand against.
He is fire
Bestowing light and warmth
Then raging, consuming
Leaving destruction in his wake.
My lover is the ocean that soothes
With eternal rhythm;
He is the killer wave erasing all
That stands in his way.
He is the earth that nurtures
And coaxes life from rock
Only to tremble and shake
And swallow what it has given.
My lover:
my architect,
my destroyer.
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