Love's Elements

It's like a fire that courses its way through my veins,
A fire that scorches away all the pain,
The guilt and the shame, I'm never the same,
Like gold, I'm refined in the heat of its flame.

And just like an ocean, it beckons and roars,
I drown in its notion, I'm swept to its floors;
Its waves crash down doors that I've built up before
And its tide reaches me on the most distant of shores.

And like a Nor'easter that devastates me,
I'm stripped of my pride and I'm brought to my knees.
The passion of the wind is what makes me believe,
And the breeze is my promised portion of peace.

And just like the earth that I tread, it is true.
By its fruit I am fed, by its Sun I'm renewed.
It is steady, unfailing, and messy though couth.
In its soil I am grown, I am fixed to the root.