Is This Love (Revised)
art credit: Jennifer Davis
“I have seen it play out in my own life; the deliciousness of the pain of desire, and the slow decay of flowers, dying because I tried to bring that beauty into my house. Love is wild, and must remain in the wild lands of soul, and heart, and holiness. Does that mean my greatest loves are to remain un-crossable distances from me?” Elizabeth Dwyer
Is This Love
We carry issues in backpacks
Full of the things we are
Injuries
Scars
Culture
Class
Gender
Religion
We are products of influences
I want to live in an original world
Free from function
Injustice
Perpetual war
Catechisms teaching a rote morality
Bent horns blowing blues lines
Made me ruminative and literary
Philosophical and jaded
Depression
Heartbreak and mendacity
Made me understand
Why I can't settle or
Assimilate into convention
Love isn’t wild
It’s civilized
I’m a freedom fighter
For prerogative
Revolution like love
Both unrequited leak
Smoke
From fire trapped inside
Inhaling second hand ganja
Is not quite like being in love
But it starts innocent
Intoxicating
Bewitching
Lustful
Love like viruses
Infect weaknesses
Not a happy ever-after song
It’s felonious
I want to believe
But what does faith
Have to do with it
