I Will Be Earth

~May Swenson

I will be Earth, you be the flower
You have found my root, you are the rain.
I will be boat and you the rower
You rock me, you toss me, you are the sea.
How be steady earth that's now a flood?
The root is the oar afloat where has blown our bud.
We will be desert, pure salt the seed.
Burn radiant love, born scorpion need.