~ VANISHING ACT

First, you cleansed me,
arriving as fire, as savage flood.
Next you tore me,
your cougar tooth,
your griffon claw,
limbs scattering like grass
in the garden of a great wind.
Then you made love to me,
night after night of unendurable
agony and passion.
Ruined by your beauty,
I have vanished,
fled into the nothingness
of who I am.