More Badness

When I knew you, oh love, the elements of my heart divided. It scattered my earthly body into the wind like a bird's song.  And you found my heart again for me drifting over the Pyrenees. Like a butterfly it fluttered amongst the pilgrims.  My heart so young and wild, so red and strong beat with the song of freedom and so you let it go- because you loved me so.  You gave me my freedom again.  

And then you found my eyes, my liquid eyes deep off the pacific.  Hiding with the whales and dolphins, green as you remembered like the hills of Ireland.  They were buried deep like a treasure in the sea. And with the gentle hands I will always know you took me back to the shore.  But when my eyes caught sight of the land they turned form green to blue, the blue of the infinite ocean.  They cried the tears of mermaids and titans and again you said to me, "Girl of water and air-light as the wind and free as the fishes your elements are my own. So long as you are of the earth we are never far apart."

And you put me back with the blue crabs and rays, the angel fish and tangled limbs of the seas' forest once again- for you knew I would someday return to you.  For years you and I both wandered together but separate, my scent in the breeze your words never far from my mind.  

My lips full and deadly sweet, you found at last in Sedona -red as the earth and wise as the mountains.  You followed my laugh.  I was talking with the wolves.  They were teaching me how to howl when you saw my sharp teeth against the moonlight.  But you were not afraid you'd heard me shout before and still you loved me.  You called out for me to come home, but the call of the wolves was too great, and I could not hear you, my dear love.  The red clay of Arizona filled my mouth, and I was the land.  I would have come, oh love, I swear if I could have heard your call.  And still you shouted and the wolves and I laughed like children in the night, terrifying and permeating.  

For the third time you walked away still in love but changed.  Why hadn't I answered back? And your love grew dark wanting but no longer believing I would return.  "Girl of water, earth, and air- your body scattered all the world. I have found your heart, your eyes, and mouth but still you forsake me.  How can you love me so and forbid me this way?"  There you left our love to dry in the desert of your loneliness.  

But through the breeze my heart heard your cry and it knew in an instant that its freedom must change.  From the mountains it flew over oceans and time.  It collected my eyes and freed my red, sand mouth for the heart can do all things.  But still we were incomplete only your love- only your love could make us whole.  

And then it was my turn to cry.  "Oh boy of the earth, more patient, than time and more constant than the sun return to me and we will never be a part again."  You heard me cry, but your silence moved me to say more.  "Oh love, sweet love, what would you have me say?  You love me because I am the sea, the wind, and the earth- infinite and wide as my love for you.  But love, sweet love, you are my fire, my torch in the dark.  You have found me no matter where I hide because your love burned so.  I am not complete without you... because I am the earth and its elements and it takes all 4 to make one."  

And with that you took my hand in yours and we were fire.  So strong burned the flame of our love that it was eternal at an instant.  We were no longer of the earth, we became the earth- a love so tangible you could hold it.

I am the sky, the sea, the land and they are me, but you oh love, sweet and true love, fire to my soul that you have always been--you bring me back to myself. You guide me home, and you forge me into something new.