IF IT ALL CAME APART

One day the boats were all unmoored

 and pulled into the sea

They drifted till, by storms and time,

 they sunk mercilessly

One day the planes, those mighty bulks

refused to lift and fly

No longer would they leave the ground 

and gravity defy 

One day the homes were all destroyed 

to twisters, quakes - the like. 

Flattened, scattered; every wall

each bridge and every dyke

Us humans left within the ruin

surprised to be alive, 

cursed and thanked the brutal earth, 

and learned how to survive  

Like refugees luxated from

the normal we had known

Our past was antiquated to

the wild, raw alone 

I could find another side of you

To have, my dear, and hold

Not a changeling but a change

From dross we’ll mine the gold

The stillness when the cities fell 

felt vast as all of space

We had to fit ourselves anew

within this earthen place 

I could lose you in the static

Or the silence in between 

Hold on to the frequency 

Of each other being seen 

One day the roads were overgrown

Till the ones which marked our way

Were the trails of the animals

Through grass and sand and clay.