The scrap yard of love

 

That’s how I gathered her,--

a sad pile of

shards, fragments, broken pieces,

But that’s love,

Broken pieces feel like

soft rosebuds in your arms,

They bleed the skin

as you press with gentle warmth,

You become a maker or mender,

The broken pieces get together

and acquire a shape in the kiln

of your care and share,--

a lovely woman in your arms,

full of dreams and desires;

strong, confident, vigorous.

 

Love first softly brushes,

then sadistically crushes,

Now it’s your turn to be broken

and spill out of her arms,

Get shattered and scattered,

Waiting for some enchanting

treasure hunter of love

to see the potential in the broken pieces,

To gather you up, your fragments

in her lovely arms,

Love will sprout again,

Giving you a new shape

in new arms with fresh charms.