Ruined by Your Beauty

First, you cleansed me,

arriving as fire, as savage flood.

Next you tore me,

your panther tooth,

your lion claw,

limbs scattering like grass

in the garden of a great wind.

Then you made love to me,

night after night of unendurable

torment and passion.

Ruined by your beauty,

I have vanished,

fled into the nothingness

of who I am.