How I Fell in Love

Silent and invisible.
How could I see it coming
It was un-welcomed and uninvited
Just as all the things which insist on arriving
In our lives
To show us we were not created
To control the elements.
And it must have been the way I started to see your skin
As a land full of promise.
And it must have been the way your voice kept
Some of my darkness at bay.
It must have been how you took dominion
Of my imagination.
I think that’s how.
You’re gone now.
I see you from time to time
But you’re gone.
She has hidden you away.
And the heavens in their sweetness know I’m not mourning.
Because they gave this love to me
So my cup runneth over, and over
And this new universe I discovered within me
Can be home to someone chosen