Love, Leads Me
As a young woman
I aspired to love
I desired serenity
I exalted in enchantment
Childish and conceited
In animated pursuit of
Average aspirations
Achingly slow
The insidious starvation
Of my spirit spiraled
I recoiled
Reconciled
To dull discomfort
That became an affliction
Vegetative bitterness
Mortified
My soul
Caved in
Catastrophic consequence
As a mature woman
I wear the mantle of
Penetrative placidity
Cased in skin and scars
My soul spirals in the
Hollow stillness of my bones
Yet, Effervescent
Love,
Leads me
To my indelible destiny
