Robert FrostThe Flood
Casually they shed words, and there,
Like a never-known companion, rose
What only the unsought moment knows,
Discovery, that two can share
And restore to sapling with surprise
The wood the water petrifies,
The sunken gopher ark in rain
As deep as the god-wrath after Cain.
They lifted this to the tree again
As they shed words, and piled the shore
They never thought would reappear,
Living millenniums apart.…
In sudden pairs we find the pain
To float once more the flooded heart;
Give sap to shipwreck washed to stone,
And rescued, two together grown
To the resurrected landfall one,
Stand in the passion love puts on,
The unsought yet awaited love,
Far from the rainbow of the dove.