LOVE IS LIKE THE TIDE

If it comes flooding in
it will ebb out fast
If it comes with the tide
it will leave quietly

You will watch it like
watching water turn to steam
evaporate into the same cloud
as where it came from

You will stand gazing at
the illusion it makes
before a summer-blue sky
that is supposed to
make you happy
Instead it makes you cry

Your tears will add
to the pollution
of the fantasy that is love
You lose it with
the ebb that slowly ousts
Revealing the rubble and dreams
that others
have lost before

Now all you can do is wait for
the next downfall - the next rain
to raise the waters
once again

© CamTan Ringel, 22nd June 2015