Love

Love pierces the most solumn of hearts.

Tears through the tumbles of bones

Digs into the marrow of the soul’s own way.

It taunts the places that resist it most…

The tender pink underbelly

Of pulsing-with-life-giving organs of time.

Love is brutally kind.

It teases the truth from us

And dashes our hopes on the stones of decay

It winds its way up each vertebra

And gushes back down again.

Whispering songs of truth through every slick crevice.

Barreling through dark tunnels

Of each unkempt mortal,

Cavernous inside place.

Until love has spun itself

Into sacred union with the mysteries

Of the great beyond.

~Wendy Brink

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