We Love

We Love

We love with all the fervor of our need
and so we start along the winding way
of a world we can’t imagine but make,
potters of our clay on the wheel of years

life of desire,  its own antagonist,
protagonist of joy and defeat,
the onrushing lessons of hope and grief,
this life, precursor, of wisdom and ash

this, that transfigures as fire and r…