We are children of dark origins
Our substance formed
In flames of death
And separation
Carried out
On the final wave
Of a cataclysm
Of destruction
Of an intimacy
Too close to bear

Are we all tainted
Scarred in physical memory
Lodged deep within
Our very cells
By such dark beginnings
Do we fume and hate
Fear, fight, or flee
For anything more
Than a fearsome rage
Roiling in an awareness
Of an intimacy lost
An intimacy ineluctable
An intimacy intolerable
Burnt
Transformed
Blown away
By love inescapable
By love unsustainable