Like watching a car crash
steel crushing steel, shrieking metal
some freak tragedy
a tornado—
its wailing cylinder of madness
scorches ground
and earth’s crust crumbles
what once had form
collapses to chaos
an impending disaster
the storm’s rampage, imminent
heart, sick and sinking
mind cowers and shrinks in its skull
powerless, I wait
for the pain
and for what has been built up
to be torn down
abruptly, violently
a colossal tree uprooted
its limbs wild, angled and jagged
how like the flash of a mirror
this sudden inversion
when love transforms to animosity
when companion turns enemy
you tear a hole in my fabric
and abandon it, raw and gushing
yesterday I was a whole and ripe fruit
today only limp skin remains
a black wolf races in the night
its flashing eyes set
on the lamb’s tender, woolen throat
insults rage
from your hot, volcanic hole
how your tongue can ignite
and in flames go years of goodwill, memories
it seems our life the one we thought was built with stone is but a wooden pyre
awaiting a single match
