Longing

Longing

A Poem by Michael R. Burch

Longing
by Michael R. Burch


We stare out at the cold gray sea,
overcome
with such sudden and intense longing . . .
 
our eyes meet,
inviolate,
and we are not of this earth,
this strange, inert mass.
 

Before we crept
out of the shoals of the inchoate sea,
before we grew
the quaint appendages
and orifices of love . . .
 

before our jellylike nuclei,
struggling to be hearts,
leapt
at the sight of that first bright, oracular sun,
then watched it plummet,
the birth and death of our illumination . . .
 

before we wept . . .
before we knew . . .
before our unformed hearts grew numb,
once again,
in the depths of the sea’s indecipherable darkness . . .
 

When we were only
a swirling profusion of recombinant things
wafting loose silt from the sea’s soft floor,
writhing and sucking in convulsive beds
of mucousy foliage,
 

flowering,
flowering,
flowering . . .
 

what jolted us to life?

Keywords/Tags: life, evolution, love, desire, longing, passion, lust, sex, appendages, orifices

© 2020 Michael R. Burch


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Tags: life, evolution, love, desire, longing, passion, lust, sex, appendages, orifices