Sep 062013
Peace, the wild valley streaked with torrents,
A hoopoe perched on the warm rock. Then why
This tremor of the straw between my fingers?
What should I fear? Have I not testimony
In her own hand, signed with her own name
That my love fell as lightning on her heart?
These questions, bird, are not rhetorical.
Watch how the straw twitches and leaps
As though the earth quaked at a distance.
Requited love; but better unrequited
If this chance instrument gives warning
Of cataclysmic anguish far away.
Were she at ease, warmed by the thought of me,
Would not my hand stay steady as this rock?
Have I undone her by my vehemence?
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