Maelstrom

I was warned but I would not be told.
She is temperamental, they had said,
- capricious - and blows hot and cold.

I could see that we were poles apart
yet I could not resist her magnetism.
We can’t control matters of the heart.

Things between us happened fast,
we experienced a whirlwind romance;
didn’t think our sky could be overcast.

She was, either, an icy frozen glacier
or, at times, a fiery bubbling volcano;
people asked how I could fancy her.

I’ve to admit that every now and then
thunder rumbled and without warning
I was floored  by  a gale of force ten.

I gradually and sadly got the impression
that her changeable moods were due
to a chronic, deep seated depression.

Wondered how long our love would last
seeing  that sublimation could not occur.
A scenario  that’s not easy to forecast.

© Luigi Pagano 2015