I think I have found love

The apocalypse is here or something like it

There is no law we are all in arms

Hiding upstairs with my family

Someone approaches we can all feel it

Outside the window the town is ghost and sand

Father and brothers led the way we followed cautiously

Looking down I saw a man on a chair with our dog by his side

Covered in dust from his big head to this worn feet

Indifferent to our masculine menace

From the side of my eye I caught a glimmer

A more exciting vision caught my soul

Every word she spoke every gesture she made I followed

It may have been days or weeks I was her constant companion

She regaled me with tales and gossip and stories

She told me of her life, her friends, her politics, her philosophies

I bathed in her attention my life had found its purpose

One day she was gone

I returned to my family and told mother

I think I have found love