Thursday, September 13, 2012

Confinement


we are confined by our bodies and if
the mystics are correct
                        that the body is in
                                    the soul

            then what


when I say I want to touch you I mean
I want to reach inside you to where you are
what you are                            I mean
I want to escape myself
                        to shudder and scream
the agony of the earth that we call gravity
shudder and scream like mothers
who have lost sons to war        to oceans
                                    to the mystery

                        to love even

I want to touch you     to reach inside myself

to touch that quivering human confined
            in this sorrowful animal body.

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