Love, Like Water

We could say the pain

was a block so great

it could not be moved.

We could say love

did not try to move it.

Love simply dissolved the mass

and surrounded it

the way water meets a block of salt,

breaking apart each ionic bond

until every atom of sodium and chloride

is surrounded by molecules of water.

And in this way,

and sooner than you’d think,

the pain was re... See more