Instinct

If you should ever go,
tell me today how
you have planned my days ahead.

If you go elsewhere, love,
fasten something to
my heart to keep it beating.

If one day you must leave,
unfurl the heavens
grant me a crack of escape.

Death, call me swiftly,
carry me away
let the earth see me no more.

If you must go away,
love, bury the knife 
plunge it deeply into me.

Say my foolish heart had
triumphed over loss
until only love remained.