Love Poem: Solstice
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Written by: Tony Bush

Solstice

Melancholic solstice of the soul 
tears along the broken line equator 
of a heart. A chasm ripped to separate 
and isolate the weathervane 
blown madly out of orbit.

And would the angels stoop to shift the sun 
that substance and coherence might evolve 
the order. Defining love will edify 
and amplify the teachings 
drowned in silence.

Life-affirming quadrants of desire 
with sextant measured distance from the 
molten star. Slow advances, veiled defences 
and dispenses the manifest 
held ever in your thrall. 

Time is all it takes to still the past, 
quell the tiny voice that supplicates 
the ego. Patient arts, wistful reverie 
and gradually the sun 
becomes your own.