I
was a rock fortress
In a charmed circle
Drawn by the ties of blood
By all my childhood
faiths
By solemn oaths before
a sacred fire
By the law of family
Gods
By the menacing
brotherhood of kin
Yet the citadel crumbled
Dissolved
Like a cargo of powered salt
In the sea.
Evaporated …
Like it had never been
And all the vast armies of logic
Were put to flight
By the single argument
Of your smile.