Where stands man within God's timeline
Should love smite hard and deep and true?
Might he not find the cosmos staring
At his stumbling step, his furrowed brow?
Might he not try to touch the heart of new-love
And find his arms too short, his hands unclean
And fail, but in the reaching, win
A smile from above for his trying?
Might he not view his beloved as a raging torrent,
One that sweeps away all rational thought?
Might she be likened to a cascading waterfall
Crashing, sparkling, all 'round him?
And he, without a moment's hesitation,
Might he toss himself beneath it,
Body and mind and soul,
And savor it all...
...to the last sparkling droplet?