I love you like
a bystander loves
watching a nuclear bomb
explode.

A euphoric flash, I strain
my eyes
and fall back
in part to take it all in,
and in part because
you pushed me.

The mushroom cloud
climbs toward the sky
like a million tiny hands,
one on top of the other,
piling upwards.

I let you
shove energy down my throat,
orange and pink.
Your radiation
penetrates.

Your poison
blanketing the world
in powerful, beautiful,
unforgiving
destruction.