We loved away pain as rain poured around us
Heat of desire keeping us dry
How great was the need:
we for each other, our chosen
And now, as time goes on, the intensity wanes
Come back! Come back!
How we long for the racing hearts and delighted glances
How we long to be reignited
Fresh in love and full of purpose
like Spring: fresh green bursting forth
in rising desire and beauty
mending stone sharon duerst author 