AMOUR - An Acrostic Poem

 

M. C. Escher - Omhulsel

AMOUR


A is for an arrow of fate, thrown by Eros while

       autumn leaves falling, surrounding us

        not without its void, creating abandonment

        like an abyss, once gone, the arms surrounding us.


M is for memory, which besieges our temple,

        yet like a mist in which you wander,

        moments to disappear, with and against

        like a moonlight that guides us -- your visage. 


O is for oblivion, like a lovelock,

        orbiting around the veil I am shattered.

            Perhaps to invite open hands or

                oceans to drown me in vastness, comfort, or danger.


U, for all me, to unite loose soul threads

        and weave my looms to see you again.

        Or to condemn unreturned love,

        a prayer swallowed by the Umbra,

        where absence knots itself to longing.


R we to believe in this radiance

        to be a part of this rebirth, or perhaps

        refuge in another, your absence

        of home and my earth, to turn my temples into

        ruins, which I allow you to wash with your 

        rivers we need not ponder,

        yet their currents pull as Eros’ arrow did.


Like Escher’s Omhulsel, love is a shell we fold around ourselves. At once a refuge and a hollow. In its curves we find warmth, but in its shadows we confront the vastness of absence. What we explored above is comfort knotted with longing, radiance haunted by ruin, the arrow of Eros circling back upon itself. 


Just as Omhulsel reveals infinity within an enclosure, love, too, is both an embrace and an abyss.

September 4, 2025


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