Natural Law

Love is nature’s oldest illusion

two people
mistaking destiny
for coincidence
while the universe quietly
moves entire oceans beneath them

Birds understand this heartbreak

Every year
they abandon the safety of familiar skies
crossing thousands of miles of darkness
toward places they cannot prove still exist

Some fall into the sea unnoticed

Some arrive alone

Still
something inside their small trembling bodies
insists on continuing

And perhaps that is what love has always been

the body willing itself toward another body
despite the terrible possibility
of never being received there

Yet still crossing the ocean

Still arriving