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                                       why do we want our loves to last forever
                                                   when , by the very essence of life ,
                                                                we are         doomed to die ?      

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we huddle by primitive fires

Pawing at each other

Grasping for each other !

alone

Afraid

//

( no - one who sees us

calls what we are doing

" love " )

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huddling by primitive fires

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the light from a conscious human being

Puts our little tiny fire

To shame

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Crippled images symbolizing

Lack of any real imagination

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Beautiful human forms !

Peddled and traded like

Filthy rag dolls !!

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Lovely creatures !

We read of the Tao

and run away !

We treat the true poets like

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Love :

                                  Does nothing

                                            But everything gets done !

( but we ....... ( ? )

we fall and jump and wait and cry
and cut and beg and moan and write

and chase away

with our proclamations of

Total dependency ! )

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(  why ? )

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when I was younger I thought someone

Would try to answer an honest question

But I am older now and now I know

That you have decided to simple die