
Love resembles H 2 O,
As its patient ebb and flow,
Smooths a jagged heart of stone.
Inner beauty thus is shown.
Inner beauty, in its turn
Incites passion's sultry burn
Love and lust commingled, rise
Vapor forms before our eyes
Vapor raptured, unaware
The onset of Arctic air
Erose edges once more form
From thick ice of wintry storm
Ice-packed heart is numbed to pain
'Til warm waters stream again
When embraced by H 2 O
Beware of the undertow
© 2009 Ellen Hammond


