I was the cliff you fell from

Stony face implacable

As gravity claimed your high minded

Attempts to deny him

 

I was the earth that rose to meet you

Shattering your dreams

Into a thousand glittering shards

Upon that mountain you believed

Was only a mole hill

 

I was the rain that fed the pool

Where you filled your empty cup

 

I was the sun who warmed you

Burned your skin till you peeled like a birch tree

Exposed your clean pink layers

To an eager breeze

 

I was the flesh you consumed

My juices hot and sizzling

You cooked me with rice

And sucked my bones

 

I was the song you sang

Out of key

As you did the dishes

Watching robins dance

Outside the window

 

I was the dream you never had

That fruit, never tasted

A poem you never wrote

A chance you never took

The woman you never loved

 

Now I am the moon

And when my gravity sways you

It is only the tide

Not the pull of my iris