Tsunami Poem by Mary Champion

When you find the kind of passion
that has never been your fashion,
it's inclined to knock you sideways - don't you know.
When two shining eyes appraise you
with desire that can amaze you
and there's no way you'll maintain the status quo.

When your heart cuts out your brain,
you are bound to go insane,
as the life you once controlled veers off the track.
Now emotion is your master,
you will speed towards disaster
and however hard you try you can't turn back.

When it's done, and you have shattered
almost everything that mattered,
and your heart keeps screaming how it wants to die,
though it shows no signs of mending,
you must carry on pretending
and hiding all the tears you have to cry.

Although time provides some healing
and mitigates the feeling,
you can't go back to then and just forget.
Though regretting all the damage,
there is no way you can manage
to feel the way you did before you met.