T is for torrent

Torrent

Your love on me lies
sunbright glistening
on the waters of
my cascading soul
as it tumbles through
the lichen-covered
rocks of pain and hope.

And sometimes you ask
why I love only
you as if rivers
could possibly choose
the paths of their journeys
to the sun-touched sea.

Copyright 2014 by Stephen B. Bagley. All rights reserved. No copying without express permission of the author and publisher. This poem was published in a slightly different form in EndlesS, copyright 2008 by Many Rivers Harbor.