Portrait of My Lover as a Waterfall
(after Selima Hill)
How relentless you are, O Lord,
and how obsessively you pour yourself
dragging everything with you, right over the
edge and down into the flurry and the frenzy
of your important falling.
No time have you, O Lord,
for the widest of rivers,
the narrowest of streams,
the largest of lakes,
the smallest of fish ponds.
No thought have you, O Lord,
for any other sort of water.
*Hilary Mellon is a poet, tutor and workshop leader. Her poems have appeared in over eighty different magazines and anthologies, four pamphlet books and one full length collection. She is also a life model.
