I bathe in your unconditional love

The YES you offer me

A haze, a fog, a ghostly offering

Of complete acceptance.

Then through the mists,

A granite block

A NO.

A hidden place of defining lines,

Sharp edges,

Cold shoulders

Shaped by ancestors

Your personal geology.

Diving deep

I explore the coral

Of my own reef

And find it jagged, dangerous.

I have sharp edges of my own.

Our words tear through the air

Like fireworks, screaming, screeching, spinning

Ear splitting.

Exploding high in the sky

In bursts of phosphorescence

Then fallling to the earth

Empty, exhausted, extinguished.

Everything and all

Extinguished.