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softly, sweetly

she caresses even nostalgia's

harshest of all recollection

that of love's previous betrayal

that is she in simplistic essence

she who too, too often

tends to remember life

through a gauzy veil of 'Selectivity'

this is why then, that I must own up

that she, the mighty yet soft hearted

completely clashing, complex

breathless bird of over extended want

is in but one brief all too revealing word

and moment

'Me'

plainly and simply put

my true nature has been confessed

every imaginable and unimaginable thing

for me equivocates love

this purity defies the notion of merely

wearing one's heart on his sleeve

I say wear it

front and center

and as closest to God as you can possibly

get

allowing everyone to see...................

(Oct. 4, 1997)