Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Naked Valentine

How can we ask God

or the gods for material

success when that’s

the last thing

they’d want for us

by the time Buddha

got to Gethsemane

Jesus was already

hanging on the hill

the sun was hiding

in shame the earth

was shivering like aspen

it’s a metaphor

what don’t you get

not just for love

but for its power

the absolute nakedness

of its power.