The earth moves according to its natural principles - I love you according to mine.
Youth has left us so quickly - the sun was once a sweet saffron bolus we swallowed so eagerly fat day after day.
Now it's a quiet yellow *****, that chokes on its own easting and goes down like a horse pill in the west.
Instead, we are with moon - I pull you close sometimes in tide, then you're away waning, waning - doldrums, tantrums.
If only I could swing low over you, in your green rain town, & not be pushed away.
It's no longer easy to share the days with you. I fill with ulcers that bleed all into me, the body the echo of the mind.
But I love you on natural principles - you have touched my life all over. Where I go, I bring you; you are still the voyage home, even when your replies come so terse and lacking invitation.