Desire



“Love is all desire. Love is never enough.”–Scarlet Harlot



We men want so much.

No ocean
could fill the hole
at which we dig & dig.

Ourselves caught in it
swearing
it couldn't happen to us
as it did to Blessed Thomas a' Kempis
that 15th century cleric who wrote
De Imitatione Christi,
a book of devotions still in use.

Almost declared a saint
until they dug his body up & found
he'd been buried alive.

Found scratchings on the coffin lid
where he'd bloodied his nails.

Found the way he'd died
struggling
unable to accept
a return to the Mother.

art goodtimes
union of street poets
vincent st. john local / colorado plateau / aztlán
kuksu brigade (ret.) / san francisco

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