Our Love Survived (The Great Deluge) Poem by Agatha Eliza

Our thoughts are born
in the storms,
untamed
like birds of prey
prowling behind
the infinite mantle of
the clouds
waiting to strike
and to peck
at a lover's fiery heart.


Then the silence was all
from one end
of the universe to
another
until the first
word broke the seal
of time
and became a love poem.


Now I remember it all...
The unfathomable
night became
a day
and the heavy rain
stopped
for the first time;
our hands were joint
together
like a bridge
celebrating
thanking the gods
for whom love
is the supreme blessing
bestowed on our kind.


We are the ones whose
love survived
the Great Deluge
but we were shunned,
cast away
condemned to look
for one another
across the ages
across the vastness
of an unforgiving earth.


We are mortals..pieces
of flesh that bleed
but did not forget
our secret names
and the love
that has kept us alive
for so many centuries
knowing that we exist
somewhere - but
never as close we are now.