Remember

Remember how love first brushed
against the hard stone of your heart,
how it tugged at your sleeve
like an excited child showing off his latest treasure? 

Remember how the pit of your stomach
gave way with a start and you trembled,
trembled as if you would disappear forever in its fluttering?

Remember how your eyes grew wide with a wonder
consuming the world so wholly, so completely
the taste of it rang through the limits of your body?

Remember when you were the tinder and the kindling
and the spark igniting the fire within ...
How that blaze burned bright ... how Winter fled
for a moment and Spring became your only season?

Remember these things now.

Let the absence you feel
fill the chambers of your silent heart,
and if it should burst, let the echo that remains
be what builds the world anew: 
Be the stone that melts in the fire,
the steam that rises from the ash,
float freely until heaviness overwhelms you
and once again you fall as rain upon an Earth ready to receive you.