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Vera Kilgore Heilig: Her Poetry Lives (2017) H. Morris Williams, Marie Law Haire

Consummation

In our first ardor you would say

That you would like to eat me whole.
And I? I wished you could

Assimilate me, let me roll
Among your corpuscles and run

Through every vein, merge with your soul,
Part of your very inmost self.

Exultant and exalted we would be,

Rapt in consummate oneness,
No longer you and I, but we,

Fused by the melding power of love
Into a single perfect entity.

If the absorption that we sought
Had ever been achieved, sustained

For even a brief interval,
That I-you-we relationship maintained,

Lacking for outside stimulus,

Would have destroyed the two of us. We gained
A richer, fuller life that gave us both

A chance to grow together, yet be free,
You to be you and I myself

Still cherishing our special unity.
Even in Eden, Eve, though carved

From Adam’s rib, was she and he was he.

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