Shapeshifter

Love is a shape shifter that

(Plaster love, wireless love, cotton candy love)

as a spiral comes to me

(Braided love, fury love, homemade love)

for different reasons,

(Bruised love, compassionate love, weepy love)

with different voices,

(Friendly love, womb love, cuddling love)

from different places.

(Windmill love, balcony love, wanderer love)

Brief and never-ending it flows,

(Cheesy love, witty love, bunk-bed love)

On summer dips or icy nights,

(Silent love, dancing love, sleepy love)

Near the mountain or the shore.

(Barefooted love, keyboard love, stray love)

It always comes to meet me,

(Patient love, destined love, chosen love)

Surrounded or on my own.

(Sacred love, courageous love, hopeful love)

Looking backwards I’ve learned

(Resilient love, cocoon love, smiley love)

That sometimes it goes,

(Stubborn love, drugged love, doorknob love)

But sometimes it does not.

(Soul love, drifting love, deathless love).