Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Outside Valentine

At 120 degrees
there are no butterflies
but the bees go on kindly
worrying in the shade
I’m no longer afraid

in the old ways honey
and look to slowly occupy
a secure position outside
the physical self understood
as fantasy at first

but kindness isn’t blindness
anymore than the sacrifice
can be avoided
the one whose promise
only others can fulfill.

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