Somebody Loved

[softlyfalling]

Sun bends down
to lick the yearning flesh of Earth
whose belly ends another flight
through shining day-
the sea turns into wine.

I am naked for the sun.
With eager, open mouth
I devour the days
and make the lazy seasons run.

My breasts,
as true a refuge as the earth,
wait for the kiss of night before
time steals my supple hearth.

Then,
having loved
for love’s sake,
death can come.

So, stanzas one and two personify earth and sun as lovers. A nice image (esp line 1 and 2). Then in stanza three speaker appears and is then equated as the earth from the first two stanzas.

All good. But who is night, and what is hearth? Earth above was lover of the sun, but here speaker seems anticipating a different lover. And does earth have a hearth? Is hearth meaning the earth's molten core, which will certainly cool with time? It's not so clear.

And so the last stanza has lost its punch for me, because I've become a bit muddled in the one before it.

So, all in all, I really liked the images opening this piece. But the nature of speaker and her lover could do with more clarification. At least, I think so.

Mikey.

I'm so confused...am I supposed to make my images more clear to you or simply thank you for the generous words?
Not in self-defense, but out of courtesy because you were confused, then:
The Earth...the earth is what the sun kisses when it sets...I am that earth in my personal mythology. When the sun sets, darkness overwhelms, hence this kiss of night, and night is euphemistic for death in the aforementioned self-myth. Hearth is where the home fires burn, fire is life enforcing...death steals it away because I no longer exist on the mortal plane...
sigh...was it really that awful?