There's nothing you can do
to deserve love,
that's how you know it's true.

Really, it's got nothing to do
with what you do or don't,
or with what you know to be true.

We drove through a rainbow bridge
outside Qonce, the whole spectrum
shining, even in the blue sky
on the other side, in all the spray
from every passing tyre, the whole
gyre illuminated beautifully,
the road behind us a ribbon of light,
and it had nothing to do
with us.

Such impersonal intimacy
is unthinkable, and so I swim
in the colours of peace at sunset,
drinking in salt and fire
and feeling that this
harmony is far greater
than anything ever done.