Pendulum

You swung into my life,

with the force of tsunamic change.

The cyclic motion began,

unnoticed.

We moved with the sea and moon

and the Earth’s rotation.

The lilting accent of our tempo

shifted recurringly between gravity and

ethereal

We were the in-between

Between the promise and the duty

Between drawn together and dragged apart

Between certainty and contradiction

Between the pulse of love and the rhythm of

emptiness

We reach, we withdraw.

The opposing poles of our magnetic hearts

Choreographed the ritual of return.

We cling, we release.

Straining the paradox of longing.

Emotions swelled and ebbed against the endless brutality of

time

The pendulum moves, but it never travels.

It covers distance without ever arriving.

we move, but never together.

However,

As long as motion exists in the universe, I will always return.

As long as briny seas caress earthy shores, I will reach for……