They Loved

By Paris Providence

They loved with the intensity, 

Of hearts that sought the flame, 

Of a lion and a dagger, 

Of a hunter and his game.

And they loved with the immensity, 

Of all that’s love and war,

As she held him with insanity, 

He pinned her to the floor.

For a violence seeped in vanity, 

Had kept them both at bay, 

So they loved with inhumanity, 

Of night that swallowed day.

And they loved into depravity,

Then sunk into the Nile, 

With her hands around his windpipe, 

And his lips set to a smile.

By Paris Providence