Poems by Themis

To Eros

(God's Love Incarnate)

Love, the world will wreck you; wait,

Fold your wings before they burn;

Once you pass the soul's white gate,

There is no peace and no return.

Human searching drops hot wax

Over your pure secrecies;

There is no touch of earth but cracks

The heart's white silence, steals your ease.

Earth is dark, unknowing, dumb;

How can darkness guess or see

What you are and why you come;

It destroys your purity.

Love, you do not heed a word,

Risk the night, the pain, the lie;

Lightning-winged wild heaven's bird,

Come and lift earth to the sky.

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