Between Us

Does my blood need a motive

to travel the length of my body,

picking up waste, discharging waste,

taking on health? Do I need

to explain why loving you

is important and why leaving

is equally so, as when my blood

slows, meeting impediments, halts

and dies? You and I have met

to transact some business

between us and my delight

is in measure with our success

and my warmth towards you.

What other meaning can I find

for us, if there be meaning here

as when stars collapse

and new ones are born

out of the same matter?