What is the Rate of Acceleration

What is the rate of acceleration
in the freefall of desire?
When Romeo and Juliet
Leaped off the cliff of domestication,
Were they just falling bodies?
When Abelard and Heloise
Fled the cloisters of conventionality,
Was the velocity of their passion,
As they fell in love,
Measured as "speed in proportion to time squared?"
When David wept fro Jonathan,
How fast did his tears fall in a vacuum of his lover's absence,
As if he could map thereby the neural paths of what he treasured
And rate the perturbable agony of love discretely measured?
The heart's pulse, stoked by the heat of love,
Is fueled by insecurity, fragility, endurance and beauty.
By golden light glistening in auburn hair
Falling on bare shoulders in fields of wheat.
Because of its lightness and airy being,
Touching the mystery of any man's heart,
A feather does fall faster than all the weight of Galileo.

Copyright © 2011 James Lawer