Dazzling

Love is Sweet

So sweet, and green, and growing fat with sap,
so sweet, and lined with strata, like the earth.
So sweet, a big fat Buddha, one hand's clap!
Sweet cyclic arcs of agonies, like birth.
Sweet love is mummified within a tomb,
sweet love awakens when its lamp is lit.
Sweet love, a glowing heat within the gloom.
sweet love, the flower, blooming in the shit.

The sweetness fades, its mark a cavity,
the sweetness turns a sour or bitter note;
the sweetness tinges pink the memory,
the sweetness catches sadly at the throat.

So sweet is love, a drug, a sugar, sure
to eat itself and then demand for more.