Wednesday, January 11, 2006

No Passage but for the Perfect

Mother teaches baby daughter grown-up defenses
Hopes she avenges not giving in to her senses

Keep safe by keeping distant
Give love with great resistance
Carefully tend your fences
Cut ties when pain commences
Build up the walls around
And if one broken down
Step back and build another
Closer to stand your ground

Bruising blows to suitors from a ten foot pole
The body touch but do not touch the soul
Thus explains the feelings of wasted years
Why love if love is cloaked in fear