Not like the movies

They say it is better
To have loved and lost
Than never
Love at all

Her stillness 
Her silence 
Earns her
The title 
Gazed upon
Kissed without 
Consent

Not her strength 
Timelessness 
Resistance to
Constant elements 
Those would reduce
Her to rubble
Erode her perseverance
Reclaim the landscape 
Ancient hero
No fairytale

Giddy Girl who ate the wrong apple
How terrible 

There is no way we can move
On, over, away, out
We simply grow the strength 
To carry loved ones along
Within

Shallows of safety cove
To love 
In absentia

I always say
Maybe it will feel
Different in the morning 
Waiting for the wind
To change

River in spring with snow melt, I am
You an ancient mountain steady and unchanged, solid
How does one learn?
Pure observation. 
I dare not chip away or erode its surface. 
Clear pools of rainwater collect
Only showing my reflection 
The endless sky. 
It gives away nothing of itself. 
I can't know anything. 
Those who can sit in silence might hear something. 
Spring river is not capable of silence. 
Though how beautiful when the river pours through the mountain. 
They are made for each other 
Without the other, no richness of life.