The Blood & The Bones

Just as Aphrodite loved Ares

And Psyche succumbed and longed for Eros

And Persephone made a way to stay with Hades

And for the way the light reaches for the dark but never tries to claim it or change it or even always demand to understand it

only to offer illumination when it is needed and a hand to hold in the day or night

I love you in this way

it is what they mean when they say to fall in love, unconditional love

Unintentionally and many times, all at once

It is something that cannot be helped nor should it be.

And whether it is requited or not or understood by others, it is pure and it is mine.

the blood

& the bones