this love is a life

It tasted like the sun

It burned and raged and warmed the mouth.

It was exhilarating, it elicited life

 

And he smelt like sweat, like musk

Like earth and moisture

And that smell was alive

 

We felt like the ocean:

Turbulent and wild, calm and clean

We were revitalizing, enlivening.

 

And this is love,

This love is a life