Catastrophe

They never told me

That beauty is power.

That wholeness is a magnet

To the fragmented

They never told me

That I could wound you

Because of my whims

Yet you would follow

Because you believed

I could be tamed

Days and days

I spent as your Summer

Until you realised

I was winter for another

I never committed

So in my eyes

I held no real ties

And now I've

Been thrown ropes

From each direction

Each begging me

For my attention

But I can swim.

I've only learned

The power of my allure

After I looked back

To see all of you.

The ones I thought

Could go on

For days and days

And then just drop.

Be unattached.

Sail your own sea.

Be without me.

A beautiful, whole,

My own, catastrophe