'IN OUR ELEMENT' - A poem of new beginnings
Rough work is the best work <3
I hold my tongue in fear of not living up to your ideals
I ignore my instincts, stunt my trust and limit my love, terrified of losing yours
You are the most giving, and the most unforgiving person I know
You are both careful and careless
Honest and yet not open
What am I to you?
That I am not sure
We are, independently, fire and stone
The first is my soul and the second your own
It is no secret, we both can cause pain
I have a tragically beautiful flame
You have a strong but steel cold frame
We both have an element enemy too
If you allow the river to flow
Erosion will subsequently lighten the load
I am easily drowned when I run out of fuel
Suddenly there’s darkness and everything is cold
We are, together, a real ‘force of nature’
Grounded
Well rounded
A visionary
An unpredictable sea
You, a dormant volcano with a deadly core
Me, a passionate storm that festers inside me
We are in our element now
There is an energy in every emotion
A strength in the notion of devotion
Like the eye of the storm we found our calm
I found my safety, you found your harm
A gold plated whole of two imperfect halves
Relentless and guarded
Broken and scarred
Look what I’ve done
And what you think you cannot do
To think things are hopeless
Simply is not true
We are one of the same in moral and mind
And that is a blessing you don’t often find
But yet we are a contrast
Of black and of white
I hold the darkness and you hold the light
It’s not all that simple
There are skies of gray
With relentless winds and unrelenting rain
A hurricane of sorts
Stand too close and you could be sucked into that same spiral of self destruction
But if you take the risk and you do survive the storm
Then you’ll experience something truly but devestatingly breath taking
You will get hurt along the way
And once the winds have all died down
You’ll have to rebuild all that you had from the rubble on the ground
We love each other
And that will see us through
But our definitions of love differ
Like sunlight and ocean blue
With a little more time
Working together
We will evolve in love
Towards a new life together
Facing the day
No matter what the weather.
Courage;
Alice xxx