Vow

Leave before dawn
with two embraces:
one that slays,
one that resurrects.

Go home now
while it's still there,
your man and your children still sleeping.

In your shaky hand
the flame that burns no fuel,
the bowl that's always brimming.

Bear it carefully through this world.
Let nothing spill,
Let there be no tears, not a drop.

Into You : Bloodaxe, 2003