He meets me,
For a time–all time–is all I see.
He is lightning slashed across midnight blue,
Bright and brilliant, blinding, as he pierces through,
The veil which separates.
In my meeting such destruction, he celebrates.
Cracking thunder,
Rolling, harrowing screams of breaking timber.
This is a gift, like Ganymede, he cannot help but plunder.
Where or when it is to fall is not for our knowing.
All of us pours into one another—glowing.
I look on with my heart as nothing more than tinder,
For this rod ripping through Aithír for me—golden,
The color of sap against tree bark—amber.
Zeus’s ambrosia-drenched lightning, which sends men to their graves;
The jagged noise licking through into the ragged, raging waves,
As if thrashing against all that it does not see or hear,
Stupefied as much as the knobby-kneed baby deer.
Drunkenly consumed by my beloved’s Ichor,
Let it rain down and run on through me anyhow.
Thunder rolling with a violent roar, ripping into my very core,
Burning kisses laid to furrowed brow.
Let me swim in nothingness, forevermore.
It is my choice of poison,
Every time,
I've come to find,
In every life.
The storm sings on.
Fighting to say all it feels but cannot yet find words to speak.
I return my own song,
However broken, however meek.
There will be no dawn.
There will be no night.
All is gone.
All is light. – AKRx