Elemental

My left breast thunders at the thought of you,
a mustang stampeding in wild fear,
blinding my mind's eye in rosy dust...

Will you or won't you do you or don't you,
my thoughts race like starved rats in a circle,
the snake eating his tail eternally.

Where is my strong heart,
that used to lie peacefully dreaming,
here in her dark moist cave?

She bursts now from her bony cage,
a fingerless fist clenching and expanding
in alternating hope and despair.

Days of silence are aeons of darkness,
the star of my love is frozen in reverse,
poised on the verge of black hole to supernova.

Others have been as pebbles tossed into a pond,
charming circles of cool wavelets subsiding into stagnant stillness;

You are the raging storm rampant upon the ocean,
an elemental force rending the black heavens with jagged tears of fire,
primordial chaos summoning me with savage fascination.