13 January
 

You are into me
like flame and fire
as no other desire could
know such gentle fury 

… like an undefined thirst
incalculably uncontrolled,
or passion spent in seeking
a wild 
            and wondrous rose.

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With love, as in life, there are no guarantees.  Except always a beginning, always an end.  Nothing else is certain, set in stone.  The thoughts and emotions that drive us indeed ever churning, changing...
ever in flux, ebb and flow.

So too, the heart—yet once fixed, as relentless as a star: the blaze too brilliant to be near, consuming all. Whether right or wrong, a force of such power and import, almost impossible to stop. Impossible not to desire above all things (whether prudent or unwise)... moving us to destiny or despair. 

May your star remain fixed—your love, the life it was meant to be.

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Originally published in 2008, completely revised March 2012 ,(mostly just the interior layout, and back cover text).  You, My Love was a winning finalist in the Nat'l Indie Excellence Awards, 2010; and the runner-up in both the London Book Festival, 2011, and Paris Book Festival, 2012.

(Available on Amazon -- best found by typing in my author's name first, then all the books show up.)