Day 529: What Did We Think Love Would Do?

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what did we think love would do?

keep us safe?

somehow protect us
from what the world would dare?

 

we are young
who think love
such a saccharine thing.

 

for when it comes,

it comes like a knife
against the parts of you
that must be cut away,

and heats
like the blacksmith’s forge
to fuse and fold,
to weld and mold,
the parts
that must be bounded and bridged.

 

like knives and fire,
love should be handled
with care.

 

what other thing is there
in the world
that can expand the soul
to such incorporate width

that all the good,

and true,

and beautiful,

can be held by these stretched boundaries

and known?

against all the tidiness and borders
of nations and homes?

 

what a dangerous thing,
indeed.

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