She Is
He is the muse.
A constant variable,
a short fuse.
Absence unbearable,
the great unknown.
Love, out-
grown.
He is the bass;
a deeper vibration,
a song written in space.
A sober libation,
divine flaws
--cue the
applause.
He is the sun,
but above all, the rain.
A planned hit-and-run,
un-navigable terrain.
Six feet, three inches.
distraught, fresh
stitches.
He is the ebb,
but also the flow.
A tangled web,
fresh footprints in snow.
A new way to break;
a most deliberate
mistake.
He is the rose,
the rose-less thorns.
Interminable prose,
angel-grown horns.
Tables turned,
bridges skillfully
burned.
He is the mirror,
she finally faced.
An image drawn clearer,
adoration misplaced.
Ego crumbled--
three words,
mumbled.
She is the muse
she had forgotten about.
A lover’s ruse
floods out the drought.
Love fills her heart again--
where he ends
she does begin.

Bali, Indonesia, June 2019