Does the lover find within him <br />The concatenated ardour <br />From every cell <br />The memory of that <br />First consecration <br />In a warm acidic pool <br />When a mitochondrion <br />Entered the engulfing shelter <br />Of a torpid bacterium <br />Turning poison <br />To lifeforce <br />The first sex <br />The birth of love?<br /><br />David S Dennis<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/85-first-love/
