Earthly love

Earthly love

Earthly love wearing fetters
Constrained to orbit beloved Sol
Gaia's embrace is a prayer
The Mighty Ra blesses
With benevolence.

But should earth come closer
Should Sun draw nearer
The pyre of passion
Towering higher
Walls break down
Earth come around
Dancing one last
Spin
Around her Axis
And his pivotal orbit.

To melt down in the fiery orb
Orange red displeasure.
Her children decimated
Love's sanctuaries obliterated.
What price this edgy love
Of checks and balances
Forever and ever
Needing to maintain distance?

Abject blue and cold
Poor earth moves away
Sullenly spinning
Far far away
The ties are broken
Hurting hurtling past
Misogynous lovers
Ares glaring
Jove staring
Through giant red spotted hubris
Neptune nefarious
Sexily silent
The last Frontiers
Of Supercharged Uranus
And devious Pluto
Transversed

Where goes earth mother
In her flight of fancy?

Too cold the art
Of holding court
La solitaire

Holding hands
Was her only desire
But how can soft clay
Withstand fire?

Her tears turned to
Glaciers
Time frozen to
Eternal sorrow
Uniform darkness
Robbed hopes
Of Tomorrow

Sanity is love
That accepts boundaries
Withholding nothing
But that which preserves it.

So the lady returns
To her High station
Of Grace
She will not reach out again
To kiss Ardor's face

Content to bask
In warmth
That's tempered to caress.
So in sweetness and light
May thrive
Her children
The human race

(c) Amrita Valan 2017