…that magnetic force

slamming souls together,

lit by the sudden lightning bolt

flashed from a cloudless, midnight sky.

It locks us together at its spark.

Can never be torn apart

without a rending of the heart.

There is no diminishment,

no finish to its power.

Nothing can extinguish it

or

god’s a liar

and the fire warming the universe

is but a wish,

a fading desire,

an only hoped for intensity

who never,

even in the fullness of time,

arrives

to swaddle in the straw and shit

of a Bethlehem manger.