The rock

The rock on a high coast, on which I leant.

Your love, as strong as the rock.               

 

We were

children,

we held eternity blindly; we reached

for a meaning that was greater than life:

destiny.

 

Destiny - word of fools.

Your eye and mine:

they saw

only a hazed horizon.

 

Illusion.

Endless line before endless line

losing time to destiny.

 

What fell fire forged

that rim?

We could never foresee  

destiny.

 

There is no definition; and the last slack strands

may untwist over the savage sea.